Human Resources

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Risk & Compliance  

  • Compliance
  • | Employee Benefits
  • | Employee Leave

Risk & Compliance: Mandatory Paid Leave Is Coming

New leave laws are likely to arrive in your state or city if they haven't already. The time to prepare is now.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Pandemic

Successfully Managing Remote Employees

Clear expectations and consistent communication can help schools improve remote employees' productivity and engagement.
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  • Crisis Management
  • | Human Resources
  • | Pandemic

Remote Hiring Considerations during COVID-19 Closures

On moving processes online, selecting software, setting expectations and creating equitable opportunities, and conveying community.
10 min read
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  • 403b
  • | Employee Benefits

The Best Laid Plans: Retirement Investments and Fees

Schools have little time to manage 403(b) plans and employees have little interest. Recent research may help streamline improvements and boost returns.
8 min read
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  • Compensation Strategies
  • | Employee Benefits
  • | Employment
  • | Human Resources

Work-Life-Budget Balance: Millennial Benefits

Recruiting and retaining millennial employees may require new benefits and better work-life balance, but they can offer a fresh approach to school processes.
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Strategies  

  • Employment
  • | Human Resources

Strategies: Developing an HR Bootcamp

Training administrators on hiring and performance management practices will protect your school from legal risk and improve the entire community.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Employment
  • | Leadership
  • | Membership

Growing To Serve You Better

New NBOA staff members are ready to serve.
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Mission & Motivation  

  • Culture
  • | Employment
  • | Leadership

Mission & Motivation: A Time To Stay and a Time To Move

Transitioning into a new school can be challenging but worthwhile, especially when you have confidence that key relationships will work.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Employment
  • | Leadership

Servant Leadership, Stronger Leadership

Business officers may be natural servant leaders, but can also consciously cultivate diversity of thought, trust and future leadership.
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  • Labor Law
  • | Salary

New Overtime Threshold, Same Classification Headaches

Properly classifying school employees as exempt or nonexempt is tricky. A new white paper helps clarify matters.
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  • Regulatory Updates
  • | Salary

DOL Expands Overtime Pay Eligibility in New Federal Rule

New salary threshold less onerous for independent schools than once anticipated.
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Strategies  

  • Human Resources
  • | Survey

Strategies: Survey Says

Conducting a school-wide survey may help boost morale and retention if expectations are clear and employees feel heard.
7 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Legal

Key Resources To Mitigate HR Risk

Grace Lee will serve as NBOA legal counsel, one of many available resources to help school leaders manage employment practices.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Technology

Faster, Sleeker, Stronger: HR Tech This item is protected.

Implementing human resources technology may not only save time and improve the employee experience, but also spur more strategic thinking.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Compliance
  • | Human Resources

Risk & Compliance: The New Pay Equity Laws

While federal law has done little to shrink the gender pay gap, more states have passed laws on comparable pay, which may impact school hiring practices.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

When Tragedy Knocks: Losing a Faculty Member

No one on campus wants to consider what happens after the death of a colleague or their own passing, but preparing for the worst will help everyone in a time of grief.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Misconduct
  • | Risk Management

Who’s in the Room? Calling Witnesses in School Investigations

When a school undertakes a misconduct investigation, deciding who to call as a witness is not always clear. Three independent school lawyers weigh in.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Misconduct
  • | Risk Management

With Justice for All: School Investigations This item is protected.

Should your school face the dreaded day of a serious misconduct allegation, you will need to know what situations require an investigation, who can conduct one and what the outcomes might be.
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  • Human Resources

Difficult Conversations Can Strengthen School Values

When employees aren't meeting expectations, leaders must initiate what might be a difficult conversation. Doing so with courageous authenticity will help leaders have clear, honest and direct communication that can solve
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Labor Law
  • | Summer Camp

Risk & Compliance: Wage and Hour Laws Don’t Go on Summer Vacation

Are summer camps exempt from FLSA requirements? A closer look at the recreational establishment exemption.
5 min read