To help keep backroom hiring deals from larding the state payroll with nepotism hires, newly-hired state employees must publicly declare if they have any immediate relatives working for the state, and if so, who.
So after a FOX Undercover investigation found that hiring is often a family affair at the Mass. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, we asked for the forms that new employees must fill out — so-called sunshine forms that are supposed to shine the disinfecting light of transparency on the public hiring process by disclosing who their relatives are on the payroll.