Stop hiring relatives of employees for high-paying summer jobs. Conduct a fair and open hiring process.
Why is this important?
It was recently reported that the Department of Economic and Community Development has been hiring children and other close relatives of employees for high paying summer jobs within the department. The child of one employee is being paid $14 an hour, and made over $12,000 last summer. There are a limited number of these jobs, just 13, and 3 of them went to family members this summer. These jobs were unadvertised, so locals that might have been interested and qualified didn't even have the chance to apply. This simply isn't right. The DECD should have to perform a fair and open search to fill these positions. Tell the DECD to stop giving out jobs to their employees relatives.
Connecticut Working Families