Relation to State Board of Education or IU Board of Trustees
Persons who are related by blood, marriage, adoption, or same-sex domestic partnership to a member of the State Board of Education, or a member of the Board of Trustees of Indiana University may not be recommended for employment in an appointed position.

Relationships of immediate supervision
Indiana University does not hire or transfer close family members related by blood, marriage, adoption, or same-sex domestic partnership into positions that create a relationship of immediate supervision (supervisor to employee) between two people.
This restriction includes the employment or transfer of full-time, part-time, hourly, and temporary employees.

Relation by blood or adoption
Family members related by blood or adoption that fall under this policy include these persons: parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, and first cousin.

Relation by marriage or same-sex domestic partnership
Family members related by marriage that fall under this policy include these persons: spouse as defined by Indiana law, same-sex domestic partner as qualified by the university’s Affidavit of Domestic Partnership, stepparent, stepchild, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, half-sister, half-brother, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or relations of the same degree to the same-sex domestic partner.

The chancellor makes the final determination regarding what is immediate supervision based on two standards:

• Does the supervision involve day-to-day functions?
• Is the supervisor the only one who is competent to judge hiring, retention, promotion, and salary issues?

If a marriage or same-sex domestic partnership creates a relationship of immediate supervision, one of the persons affected must give up his or her position by one of the following dates, whichever is greater:

• By the end of the fiscal year
• No later than six months after the marriage

The person giving up a position may be reemployed elsewhere in the university. If the two individuals cannot agree on who will leave, the one with less service must look for other employment.

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