Categories: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The AFL-CIO Split: What it Means to Non-Union Nonprofits
At the end of July 2005, during the AFL-CIO's annual convention in Chicago, four of the largest AFL-CIO unions - the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, UNITE-HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Sexual Harassment
Nonprofits are not exempt from sexual harassment claims like those recently in the news for business firms and public agencies. For example, a legal secretary in California received a multimillion dollar verdict against a law firm. A trial in the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Think Again: What You Don’t Know but Should About Interviewing & Reference Checking
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn Walking into an interview is like walking into a pressure-cooker. As an applicant, you sense that the interview is your best chance at winning a job. Most nonprofit...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inspire True and Triumphant Teams
Few leaders are willing to face the wrath of their friends and peers and speak ill of “teamwork.” Yet too often we use the words “team” and “teamwork” when we really mean work groups or a process involving a group...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
There’s No Mystery to Your History: Using Background Checks in the Screening Process
Most nonprofits use some type of background check to vet potential employees and volunteers. However, the term “background check” is used to mean very different things by different people. Sometimes the term is used loosely to refer to a variety...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Remember to Share
From time to time one overhears the parents of boisterous or bickering children pleading with their offspring to “share.” The admonition to “share with your siblings” is advice that many of us heard repeatedly from our wise parents, particularly when...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Human Resource Risks and the Forest of Fog
If you have read (or read to your kids) the latest in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, at times you may find yourself identifying with the young Mr. Potter. Raised in a world of ordinary humans, at the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Six Tips for Playing it Safe: At Work, At Home, On the Web
We have all heard the saying, To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.” The fact is, computers do not foul things up, people do. But computers allow us to foul them up faster, more efficiently...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Taxman Cometh
What’s on the agenda for the IRS this year? Lois Lerner, the Director of Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, addressed a gathering of lawyers and accountants in Washington, D.C. last week to share how the IRS views the impact of...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Got Instinct?
Earlier this week, a friend who works in the entertainment industry told me that at the point when the curtain goes up on a Broadway show or the band emerges from the wings at a sold-out concert arena, the team...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices