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: How Do We Handle a Supervisor Whose Way of Treating Employees Is Causing Them to Quit?
No one is too important, too indispensable, or too essential to escape discipline for zero-tolerance policy violations.
Ask Rita: An Employee Took Our Confidential Information for Their Own Personal Use and Won’t Give it Back—What Can We Do?
An employee has taken proprietary information and used it to start a competing nonprofit. What is our recourse, if any?
Ask Rita: How Do I Navigate Requests for Religious Exemptions from a Requirement to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine?
It is important to work with that employee to understand the basis for the request and to determine whether it is appropriate.
Ask Rita: We Have Decided on an In-House Investigation—Now, How Do We Do It?
Approaching investigations in a way that the process is fair, objective, and thorough, as the law requires, can be formidable for a beginner.
Workplace Discrimination Investigations: Do We Need to Hire an External Professional?
Whether you handle investigations internally or bring in an independent outside investigator depends on several considerations.
Ask Rita: FFCRA Paid Leaves 2021—Help!
Simplifying paid-leave laws. The best way to understand what the new leave laws provide is to take a quick look back into the past.
Ask Rita: Recording Conversations in the Workplace — Do I Have to Put Up with This?
We want to discipline an employee for an unauthorized recording of our conversations. What are our options?
Re-Opening After Covid-19: What Nonprofits Need to Know about Reasonable Accommodation of Employees with Disabilities
Nonprofit employers must navigate a multitude of workplace laws and risks, including employees with underlying medical conditions.
Ask Rita: We Can Require Employees to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine—But Should We?
It is important to take into account legal and practical considerations so as to balance community safety with the impact on individuals.
New York Nonprofit Employees Get Additional Paid Sick and Safe Leave Rights, Part 2
PART 2 of an article explaining more details about the New York State and City paid sick/safe leave laws.