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: 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.
New York Nonprofit Employees Get Additional Paid Sick and Safe Leave Rights, Part 1
Explore new state laws, in addition to COVID-19 leave, provided under New York State’s Emergency COVID-19 Quarantine Paid Sick Leave.
Ask Rita: Can Our Paid Employees Also Do Volunteer Work for Us?
If you have an employee that also wants to volunteer at your nonprofit, here are some tips to help protect your nonprofit and your employees.
How to Build a Compassionate Workplace
Methods for interacting with emotional labor that create a net positive for everyone in your nonprofit organization.
Ask Rita: What Is a Hostile Work Environment?
Unhappy employees sometimes say they are working in a “hostile work environment”. Here’s what that means, and when to investigate it.
Ask Rita: How Can We Help Our Employee Care for Family During COVID-19?
Empathy, understanding, and flexibility is necessary to ensure that we help our employees, and in turn, our nonprofits survive and flourish.
Ask Rita: I’m Confused Over EXEMPT vs. NONEXEMPT and SALARIED vs. HOURLY Employees
Employees are classified as either “exempt” or “nonexempt.” However, many in the workforce instead use the terms “salaried” or “hourly”.
Ask Rita: How Does the Americans with Disabilities Act Impact Our Efforts to Keep Employees Safe During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
The pandemic has created new complexities. The duty to engage in the interactive process with employees with disabilities has not changed.
Hiring People with Disabilities Is Not a Charity: Here’s Why and How to Stop Paying Subminimum Wage
While receiving services in the community does not always prevent people from being referred to subminimum wage jobs, it does make it difficult.