Strategies
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Leadership
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Professional Development
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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But W-4s will likely not change for at least another year.
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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
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Regulatory Updates
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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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
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Regulatory Updates
Schools with 50 or more employees could receive assessments for even a single instance of non-compliance.
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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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Joint response to DOL request for information on aborted overtime rule captures schools' best intentions, costly frustrations.
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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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