Managers at the Oregon Department of Transportation arranged temporary agency jobs for their children this year despite state rules that prohibit nepotism in hiring and the use of an official position to obtain financial gain for a relative. At least eight children of employees secured temporary jobs for two to six months making between $11.33 and $15.27 an hour, most within the Transportation Department's information systems and technology units, according to records requested by The Oregonian. ODOT's situation sounds, at the least, like a violation of the spirit of state rules, said John Dienhart, director of the Center for Business Ethics at Seattle University's Albers School of Business. They included the daughter of Ron Winterrowd, the manager of information systems at ODOT; the son of Dave Ringeisen, the manager of the department's transportation data section; and the son of Lynn Cartwright, a project delivery manager in the information systems department who retired in 2012 and is now collecting a pension of $91,000 a year, while working 20 hours a week at her old job.
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