Is this ethical?
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Anonymous
| DH is at the SES level at a federal agency. DS will be graduating in about three months and is looking for a job in Project Management. One of the Project Manager contractors under DH's supervision has offered to take DS's resume to another PM in another federal agency. This is just a formality and that DS will be hired for a job at a different agency. Is this ethical? |
Anonymous
| Not even close to ethical. |
Anonymous
| No way. Not in a million years. And if you have to ask, you KNOW the answer already. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it is unethical. Your DH not taking his annual ethics' training? |
Anonymous
| I see nothing wrong here |
Anonymous
because the whole thing is wrong |
Anonymous
| This is OP. I asked because I work in the private sector for a fortune 500, and people in the private sector do it all the time for their children, relatives, neighbors' kids, friends, etc... I did it a few times myself. What is such a big deal about it? |
Anonymous
Not an expert, but I believe governmental agencies are subject to more stringent hiring laws/policies than companies in private industry. I could be wrong. |
Anonymous
Every agency has hiring manager training. Maybe you should suggest DH take it, because this violates just about all of it |
Anonymous
Unfortunately OP Gov jobs are under different guidelines. Absolutely people do it in the private sector all the time. |
Anonymous
| Your husband needs to talk to his ethics officer, but my guess is that it's not ethical. A subordinate is promoting (in the sense of putting forward/recommending) his boss's kid. |
Anonymous
Just to break it down for OP
definitely unethical, maybe a crime unethical and a violation of hiring regulations
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Anonymous
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DS cannot for work or under the supervisory umbrella of DH...
DH knows a PM contractor. shows DS resume to PM contractor. PM contractor take DS resume to another PM in another agency DS still has to apply for the job and still has to get hired by the other agency. this is called networking. |
Anonymous
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Of course it’s unethical. It’s no different than if your husband took a bribe from the contractor.
What’s acceptable in the private sector is irrelevant. It’s also common for private sector contractors to spend enormous sums of money on dining/entertainment for their corporate clients, but that doesn’t mean it’s permissible in government. |
Anonymous
That's networking in the private sector. A contractor whose contract you supervise placing a relative in a job may be a crime for a federal employee. For anyone who doesn't remember
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/02/business/expentagon-official-gets-9-months-for-conspiring-to-favor-boeing.html |