Categories: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Classification Conundrum
Updated: September 24, 2019 Avoiding Potentially Costly Employee Classification Errors Across the country, many nonprofit leaders struggle with the question of whether or not they have properly classified their staff members as either “exempt” or “non-exempt” workers. The Department of...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choosing Preparation Over Panic
The subjects of employee benefits and employee “rights,” have been front and center in the news as of late. Another front-page / home-page topic on the domestic news front is the growing federal deficit. School children (and taxpayers!) across the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Webinars
All That’s Sacred: The Erosion of Employment at Will, the Regular Workday and Other HR Icons
From employment-at-will disclaimer statements to strict warnings about inappropriate out-of-work-conduct, the tried and true HR risk advice you’ve relied on for years may no longer be effective in keeping your nonprofit safe from claims and damages. What can you say...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
All Dressed Up
Invitations to office parties, family get-togethers and school events seem to fill mail boxes and e-mail inboxes this time of year. Although a growing number of nonprofits are experimenting with events for which one is expected to purchase a ticket...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Adopt a Total Ban on Personal Electronic Device Use While Driving
January 26, 2016 Since we began offering free RISK HELP to our Affiliate Members in 2012, we have answered a wide array of risk questions--some highly unusual. Last week we received this quirky question from two incredibly different member organizations:...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Adapt to Thrive
A new article on the “teenage brain” caught my attention last week while I was killing time in an airport bookstore. The feature article in this month’s National Geographic Magazine explores new research on the evolving brains of our teenage...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Checking Criminal Histories: Considerations Before You Begin
Every nonprofit organization is responsible for taking reasonable measures to protect service recipients from harm. This responsibility extends to all facets of a nonprofit's interactions with its clientele. While not a panacea, careful screening of the paid and volunteer staff...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Can You Hear Me Now?!
Last week I had an extraordinary opportunity to train a team of nonprofit leaders on workplace conflict resolution. The members of the team work for an international, multi-cultural nonprofit. Working together over several days we explored the process of re-framing...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Calling All Factions
I’m fascinated by research on the human brain, an organ neuroscientist David Eagleman refers to as “three pounds of the most complex material we’ve discovered in the universe.” By luck I happened to catch Tuesday’s edition of the NPR Program...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Buyer’s Remorse
In a thought-provoking “CEO to CEO” feature article in the September/October 2010 edition of Associations Now magazine, four CEOs were asked: “If you could take back one business decision you’ve made in the last five years, what would it be?”...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices