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: Religious Exemptions from Regular Work Duties—What Am I to Do?
How to evaluate an employee’s request for a religious accommodation and when to appropriately provide such accommodations.
Ask Rita: My Employee Has Been “No Call, No Show” for Three Days—Why Isn’t This a Resignation?
Terminating an employee because they haven’t shown up or reported in should be pursued only after proactive efforts to reach out have failed.
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.