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Human Resources
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Procedures
Understanding these eight organizational principles will help protect students and staff.
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Employee Benefits
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Employment
In the brave new world of health care benefits, everyone — schools, the business office and, yes, employees and their dependents — must play an active role.
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
The best insurance is a healthy employee population. A health care primer by a business officer, for business officers.
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On August 31, a federal judge in Texas struck down the Obama-era federal overtime rule that would have raised the minimum salary level for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act from $23,660 to $47,476. Ruli
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It's back to the drawing board, in a manner of speaking, for the DOL's overtime rule. NBOA and NAIS are surveying member schools.
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Employment
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Risk Management
From the archives: Schools update hiring processes as stakes, and compliance requirements, climb. “Hiring still comes back to your perception of the individual.”
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
The latest effort to partly repeal the Affordable Care Act failed early this morning after three Republican senators voted against it. What was called the “skinny repeal” would have removed the employer mandate, the indi
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Budget
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Employee Benefits
From the archives: Facing rising costs and new ACA rules, independent schools take closer looks at alternative models of health care delivery.
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Facilities
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Human Resources
Proactive succession planning helps schools staff increasingly complex facilities leadership positions.
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Two recent developments at the highest federal levels could impact independent schools with regard to wage and hour compliance and worker classifications. Rolling back guidance from the Obama Administration, the developm
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Facilities
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Human Resources
From the archives: Trade shortages and cost concerns prompt more schools to evaluate pros and cons of outsourcing facilities and operations maintenance.
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Strategies
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Employee Benefits
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Human Resources
At Fay School, absenteeism is down, spirits are up.
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Facilities
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Human Resources
When key financial officers and facilities personnel retire at the same time, how do you prepare the school for the transition?
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Employee Benefits
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Professional Development
PD funding must serve the entire institution, not just the interests of individuals. Real money is at stake.
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Finally, some new insight on the future of FLSA for independent schools.
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Out to pasture for another independent school tradition? At-will employment laws build case against presumption of year-long employment.
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Human Resources
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Labor Law
Amid federal reshufflings in the early days of the new administration, independent school business officers are still in wait-and-see mode regarding the fate of legislation such as the Affordable Care Act and proposed ch
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Human Resources
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Key Technology
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Technology
From the archives: Education technology is on a fast-moving trajectory. Here’s how schools’ technology department staffing structures can keep pace.
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Compensation Strategies
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Employment
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Salary
From the archives: Administrators are working with faculty to develop new compensation structures that clarify where teachers stand and what benchmarks they need to achieve to move up.
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Job Description
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Leadership
As longtime independent school leaders retire, their successors will step into dramatically different circumstances. What will they (or you) need to be successful?
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