Politics & Government

Connecticut Officials' Kids Get State Summer Jobs

The summer workers are the children of managers and a state commissioner.

Several children of mid- and high-level managers for the state have gotten state summer jobs that were never advertised to the general public.

The children of two employees of the state's Department of Economic and Community Development were hired to staff interstate "Welcome Centers," including the daughter of Rosemary Bove, the $101,000-a-year official who manages the centers, according to a report this weekend in the Hartford Courant. 

The son of another employee in the DECD also was given a job manning a Welcome Center and the nephew of DECD Deputy Commissioner Ronald Angelo is one of four summer workers at the department's central office in Hartford, the Courant reports.

A state human resource official defended hiring the young relatives of the state employees, telling the Courant "There is no language in [the State Personnel Act] that prohibits an agency hiring an employee family member. These hirings were proper!!!"

The summer workers make between $12 and $14 per hour, the newspaper states.


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