Listen "Pandemic HR Questions with Guest Expert Amy Hunter"
Episode Synopsis
The adjustment to our new reality continues with a conversation with Amy Hunter from The Simmons Group answering Pandemic related nonprofit HR questions.
Topics:
Are we permitted to move salaried employees to hourly? – 3:15
How best do I communicate staffing changes? – 5:38
How do I make staffing changes without people feeling less important? – 11:42
Upsides and downsides of a furlough for an Executive Director? – 19:30
We need to do layoffs. How can I help my staff cope? – 29:30
Andy’s Note: Your nonprofit can’t “be too small to pay into unemployment.” In Nevada (and likely everywhere else) that’s not a thing.
Mentioned this week:
The Alliance for Nevada Nonprofits
Ask us a question!
And because podcasts are always a little late to the party, here are a few timely resources from the Alliance For Nevada Nonprofits, and the National Council of Nonprofits:
Analysis of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (Pub. L. 116-136)
Loans Available for Nonprofits in the CARES Act
How Nonprofits Can Utilize the New Federal Laws Dealing with COVID-19, Nonprofit Quarterly, Mar. 26, 2020
Analysis of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Topics:
Are we permitted to move salaried employees to hourly? – 3:15
How best do I communicate staffing changes? – 5:38
How do I make staffing changes without people feeling less important? – 11:42
Upsides and downsides of a furlough for an Executive Director? – 19:30
We need to do layoffs. How can I help my staff cope? – 29:30
Andy’s Note: Your nonprofit can’t “be too small to pay into unemployment.” In Nevada (and likely everywhere else) that’s not a thing.
Mentioned this week:
The Alliance for Nevada Nonprofits
Ask us a question!
And because podcasts are always a little late to the party, here are a few timely resources from the Alliance For Nevada Nonprofits, and the National Council of Nonprofits:
Analysis of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (Pub. L. 116-136)
Loans Available for Nonprofits in the CARES Act
How Nonprofits Can Utilize the New Federal Laws Dealing with COVID-19, Nonprofit Quarterly, Mar. 26, 2020
Analysis of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
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