Employee Handbook

The company may hire relatives and domestic partners if (1) the persons concerned will not work in a direct supervisory relationship, and (2) the employment will not pose difficulties for supervision, security, safety, or morale that could influence the objectivity of the Manager. For the purposes of this policy, “relatives” are defined as an employee’s spouse, parents, stepparents, siblings, children, stepchildren, grandparents, in-laws, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, or an adult who stood in loco patrentis to the employee during childhood.

Current employees who marry each other or become involved in a domestic partnership will be permitted to continue employment with the company provided they do not work in a direct supervisory relationship with each other or otherwise pose difficulties as mentioned above. If employees who marry or live together do work in a direct supervisory relationship with each other, the company will attempt to reassign one of the employees to another position for which they are qualified if such a position is available. If no such position is available, the employees will be permitted to determine which one of them will be reassigned within the company.