I.       POLICY

1. The Medical University of South Carolina permits the employment of relatives of employees provided such employment does not create actual conflicts of interest in accordance with “The Ethics, Government, Accountability, and Campaign Reform Act of 1991."
2. No employee may participate in a personnel action that will cause the employment, appointment, promotion, reassignment, transfer, or advancement of a family member or a member of the employee’s immediate family as defined below.
3. No employee may supervise or participate in a “chain of command” where he or she would influence the employment, compensation, discipline, performance evaluation, advancement, or job responsibilities of a family member or a member of the employee’s immediate family who is employed by MUSC, Medical University Hospital Authority, University Medical Associates or the Foundation for Research Development.
4. Employees in supervisory or managerial positions are expected to remove themselves from any decision or process that appears to be in conflict with the above statement.
5. Employees are expected to inform the department head should a change in their marital or family status place them in possible conflict with this policy.

II.        DEFINITIONS

1. “The Ethics, Government, Accountability, and Campaign Reform Act of 1991” defines family member as a spouse, parent, brother, sister, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, grandchild and members of the employee’s immediate family.
2. “The Act” defines immediate family as a spouse, a child residing in an employee’s home, and an individual claimed by the employee or employee’s spouse as a dependent for income tax purposes.