Human Resources

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  • Labor Law
  • | Salary

Department of Labor PAID Program: Amnesty Provision or Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

A careful self-audit of your wage-and-hour program may be a better step than inviting the DOL into your school for this program.
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  • Labor Law
  • | Regulatory Updates

DOL Clarifies Compensability of Break Time and Travel Time

Article by Grace H. Lee, Esq.
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Strategies  

  • Human Resources

Strategies: Emotional Intelligence for High-Stakes Hiring

By screening candidates for empathy and adaptability, this school gets this school improves retention and satisfaction with hires.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Performance Management

A Higher “Talent Quotient” for Stronger Enrollment

Staff quality “goes up in years and down in minutes.” Don’t risk even one poor hiring decision.
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  • Employment
  • | Legal

Trends to Watch in Employment Law

Article by Grace H. Lee
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After School  

  • Culture
  • | Human Resources

After School: Supply and Demand

This business officer provides financial literacy training to students after school hours. Parents want even more.
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Mission & Motivation  

  • Employment
  • | Leadership

Mission & Motivation: Honor Them with Dignity

A departing employee’s final paycheck and exit interview are only the beginning of a successful offboarding practice. Everyone is watching.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Human Resources
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Sexual Abuse Prevention Is HR’s Role — and Everyone Else’s Too

Statements like “We’ve never had an incident” support an atmosphere of complacency.
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  • Human Resources

Change Management, Conflict Management, Benefits Management: 3 More Growing HR Challenges This item is protected.

Overseeing the HR function is a tough job. And someone at every independent school has got to do it.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Employee Benefits
  • | Human Resources

Business Intelligence: Independent Schools Take Stock of Retirement Plans

Whether required or optional, more schools’ plans are shooting for 100 percent employee participation.
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  • Human Resources

3 More Growing HR Challenges: Performance Management, Risk Management, Compensation Models This item is protected.

Overseeing the HR function is a tough job. And someone at every independent school has got to do it.
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Strategies  

  • Leadership
  • | Professional Development

Strategies: Training Ground

A program that grows leaders from the school's own ranks benefits employees, students and the larger community. Evidence of its success? At least four applicants for every spot.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Tax

Withholding Guidance Changes Following Tax Overhaul

But W-4s will likely not change for at least another year. 
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  • Human Resources

3 Growing HR Challenges: Recruiting, Succession, Compliance This item is protected.

Overseeing the HR function is a tough job. And someone at every independent school has got to do it.
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  • Labor Law
  • | Regulatory Updates

NBOA Alert: Joint Employer Rule Overturned

The National Labor Relations Board last week overturned a 2015 ruling that held that two entities could be considered joint employers if they had “indirect” control over the terms and conditions of employment or “reserve
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  • Endowment
  • | Salary

NBOA Research Roundup: Overtime, Endowments, Data Collection

On August 31, a federal judge in Texas struck down the Obama-era federal overtime rules that would have raised the minimum salary level for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act from $23,660 to $47,476. Man
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  • Employee Benefits
  • | Regulatory Updates

NBOA Alert: ACA Employer Mandate Enforcement Begins

Schools with 50 or more employees could receive assessments for even a single instance of non-compliance.
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  • 403b
  • | Employee Benefits

403(b) Compliance: Avoid These Jams

2020 is years away, but now is the time for schools to ensure 403(b) plan compliance — on paper as well as operationally.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Human Resources
  • | Legal
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Avoid These Common Worker Misclassification Errors This item is protected.

Schools must remain vigilant about DOL classifications.
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  • Labor Law

"A Challenge for a School Mid-Year": Overtime Rule Responses

Joint response to DOL request for information on aborted overtime rule captures schools' best intentions, costly frustrations.
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