HR and Employment Issues
Whether you’re looking to build your team, motivate and develop employees, or handle difficult situations, our in-depth HR articles will provide valuable insights and actionable steps to help strengthen your nonprofit through smart people management.
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.
Ask Rita: U.S. Supreme Court Granted New Protection for LGBTQ+ Employees—What Do We Need to Know?
Employers should update their EEO policies to include sexual orientation and gender identity/expression as protected classes.
Ask Rita: How Can I Deal with an Employee’s Offensive Social Media Post?
Ask Rita explores how nonprofit leaders can act when dealing with an employee making an offensive post on social media.