25 NCAC 01H .0633. SPECIAL APPLICANT CONSIDERATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT OF RELATIVES

(a) Priority consideration shall be given to:

(1)           Employees with career status who have received written notification of imminent separation due to reduction in force;

(2)           Eligible employees who have been removed from exempt positions, for reasons other than cause;

(3)           Eligible employees who have been removed from an exempt managerial position for a violation of G.S. 126-14.2;

(4)           Employees returning from workers' compensation leave;

(5)           Career State employees seeking promotions; and

(6)           Eligible veterans.

(b)  Members of an immediate family shall not be employed within the same agency if such employment will result in one member supervising another member of the employee's immediate family, or if one member will occupy a position which has influence over another member's employment, promotion, salary administration or other related management or personnel considerations.  This includes employment on a permanent, temporary or contractual basis. The term immediate family includes wife, husband, mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, grandson and granddaughter.  Also included is the step-, half- and in-law relationships based on the listing in this Paragraph.  It also includes other people living in the same household, who share a relationship comparable to immediate family members, if either occupies a position which requires influence over the other's employment, promotion, salary administration or other related management or personnel considerations.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 126‑4(4); 128‑15;

Eff. February 1, 2007.