{"id":101,"date":"2014-07-14T22:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2014-07-14T22:33:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:33:47","slug":"2-1-4nepotism-policy-employment-of-relatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/2-1-4nepotism-policy-employment-of-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"2.1.4\tNepotism Policy (Employment of Relatives)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tMississippi law and the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Bylaws contain prohibitions against nepotism, which is the hiring of a person&rsquo;s family member where the hiring family member will have a direct effect or supervision on the other individual&rsquo;s progress, performance, or welfare.&nbsp; To the extent provided for in Mississippi Code &sect; 25-1-53, and state law interpreting that statute, the University prohibits the hiring of an employee&rsquo;s relative.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Relatives are defined as husbands, wives, parents, children, brothers, sisters, cousins, and any in-laws of any of the foregoing within the third degree and including one&rsquo;s grandparent, grandchild, great-grandparent, great-grandchildren, a parent&rsquo;s sibling, and children of a brother or sister.&nbsp; Half bloods are treated the same as full bloods under the statute.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">This policy does not apply to any employee who shall have been in said department prior to the time his\/her kinsman within the third degree, became the head of said department.&nbsp; An employee affected by this policy shall have all matters dealing with progress, performance, welfare assignment, salary, or promotion decided by the next highest administrative officer.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi law and the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Bylaws contain prohibitions against nepotism, which is the hiring of a person&rsquo;s family member where the hiring family member will have a direct effect or supervision on the other individual&rsquo;s progress, performance, or welfare.&nbsp; To the extent provided for in Mississippi Code &sect; 25-1-53, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}