Workplace Policies
Practical Guide to How Nonprofits Can Create Equity in Organizations and Community
It’s important to shift attention towards structural racism and come up with viable, long-lasting solutions to systemic racism.
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.
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.
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: 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: During Covid-19, Do We Furlough or Layoff Staff?
What’s the difference between a furlough and layoff? Learn what benefits to offer your employees when closing non-essential facilities during Covid-19.