HR and Employment Issues
Navigate the complexities of nonprofit HR with valuable insights, practical advice, and expert guidance on a wide range of HR and employment issues.
From recruiting and onboarding to performance management and compliance, find the resources you need to build a high-performing and engaged nonprofit team.
Ask Rita: Can Employees Smoke Medical Marijuana at Work?
Do you need to accommodate the use of medical marijuana when making a hiring decision or for current employees?
Ask Rita: Is being a surrogate mother a profession?
Ask Rita explores whether an employee’s work as a surrogate qualifies as a second job that is in conflict with her employer’s agency.
Telecommuting and Flexible Work Arrangements: Do Them Right
Robin Erickson, Director of Finance and Administration for an environmental nonprofit, shares her organization’s approach to telecommuting.
Working from Home: Sidebar on Legal Issues for Nonprofits
Take these guidelines into consideration when adopting alternative work arrangements for your staff.
Can nonprofits regulate what employees do on social media?
Regulating what nonprofit employees say and do on social media is a slippery slope. Here’s some guidance to help nonprofits.
Ask Rita: Terminate Employee After One Year of Sick Leave?
Can an employer terminate an employee who exceeds the maximum medical leave?
Our Executive Director is Embezzling
It’s the call no board member wants or expects to get: The organization’s executive director is being investigated for embezzlement.
Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series
Part 3 in Blue Avocado’s series on diversity offers specific, practical tips for recruiting people “unlike ourselves” for nonprofit boards.
Ask Rita: When Swine Flu Hits the HR Department
Nonprofits have a long history of innovation and heroism in health care and in disasters; be sure to manage the flu and its implications well.
Six Ways to Know If It’s Time to Leave
Tim Wolfred, a leader in the field of nonprofit executive transitions, on how to weigh both the organization’s needs, and your own heart.