The Attorneys General from 16 states have issued a public statement affirming that the use of best practices in DEI remains lawful. Those states include Massachusetts,
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay employees a minimum wage and overtime compensation of at least one and a half times
Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Bing AI, and Google Gemini have exploded in popularity in recent years. More individuals are relying on AI to
The FTC has determined that non-competes are an unfair method of competition and thus a violation of the FTC Act.
It is crucial for nonprofits to understand how federal and state laws define the term “volunteer,” so volunteers are not inadvertently classified as employees under the law.
The new rule largely reverses the “core factors” test put into place during the Trump Administration.
A nonprofit’s board of directors is responsible for establishing the compensation (salary and benefits) for the chief executive (typically referred to as either the Executive Director, the CEO, or the President). Although the IRS does not provide specific dollar amounts or an acceptable range of compensation levels, they stipulate that compensation must be reasonable and not excessive; “reasonable” is defined as the value that would ordinarily be paid for like services by like enterprises under like circumstances.
Statutes & Volunteer Protection Statutes Individuals volunteering for nonprofit organizations often wonder about the potential to be held personally liable if something goes wrong. Fortunately,
As a new non-profit organization grows and begins to hire employees, nonprofit leaders often have “employment contracts” as a task to accomplish on their long
Nonprofits resort to hiring independent contractors because they are often trying to “do more with less.” This common refrain of nonprofit organizations, intended to maximize
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