Category: Meetings

May 27, 2021: Rethinking Strategic Planning:  Incorporating Equity

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Traditional approaches to strategic planning are being challenged by our collective interest in elevating equity and racial justice. Organizations and institutions are increasingly grappling with how to advance equity in their internal policies, practices, and culture, and disrupt inequities in their external work with partners.

Our four presenters from Health Resources in Action have deep experience facilitating strategic planning efforts, and supporting organizations to rethink their approaches to intentionally center equity.  Brittany Chen, Managing Director, Health Equity, Mo Barbosa, Senior Director, Community Engagement, Mitzi Fennel, Chief Operating Officer, and Steve Ridini, President and CEO, will share frameworks and learnings from HRiA’s own internal equity-centered strategic planning process and its external efforts with clients and communities, and will lead a discussion on how to incorporate equity in your organization’s planning efforts.

I.                 Introductions and Overview

II.                Strategic Planning 101: Facilitating Alignment and Strategic Thinking

III.              Rethinking Strategic Planning: Health Equity Framework

IV.              Putting Health Equity in Action: Weaving our internal and external approaches

V.               Discussion:

    1. What new ideas have you gained?
    2. Thinking about your unique role as a non-profit financial manager, what might you bring back or explore further?

VI.              Close

2021-05-27 Equity-Centered Strategic Planning-HRIA

April 29, 2021: Massachusetts Paid Family Medical Leave Law 2021 Update

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Title: Massachusetts Paid Family Medical Leave Law 2021 Update
Summary:

Join employment lawyers Kathleen Berney and Mark Macchi of the law firm Hirsch Roberts Weinstein (www.hrwlawyers.com) as they bring us up to date on the MA PFML law, which has now been in effect since January 1, 2021.

The webinar will provide a basic refresher on the law and regulations, including notable updates in the final regulations effective July 24, 2020 (long after HRW first spoke with us about the PFML law).  Topics covered include the differences between private plans and benefits provided by the Department of Family Medical Leave (DFML); intermittent and reduced leave; the importance of a PFML policy and its relationship to your organization’s other leave policies, including FMLA, short-term disability, medical and parental leave. Mark and Kathleen will also touch on employer reimbursements and considerations for optimizing benefits for employees.

There will be time for questions during the presentation.  Members are also encouraged to submit their PFML-related questions in advance to Anne Murphy a.murphy@politicalresearch.org so they can be forwarded to the presenters.

Speakers:  Kathleen Berney and Mark Macchi counsel, train and represent employers of all sizes in a variety of labor and employment issues, including wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, discrimination, termination, personnel policies, government and administrative agency proceedings and conduct internal investigations.

March 25, 2021: Vaccine Nation: Return to Work and Employer Obligations

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Title: Vaccine Nation: Return to Work and Employer Obligations
Summary: As COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, employers must be educated on how to re-open safely while also protecting everyone’s rights.  Employers must consider whether they can require employees to be vaccinated, and whether they should require employees to be vaccinated.  These decisions are based on a cross-section of laws addressing disability discrimination, medical leave, and workplace safety.
 
Speaker: Jeff Siegel, a partner at Morgan, Brown, & Joy (https://www.morganbrown.com/attorney/jeffrey-s-siegel/).  Jeff advises and represents employers of all sizes on all aspects of labor and employment law. Most recently his practice has focused on advising clients on the employment aspects of COVID-19 – including furloughs, employee pay issues, employee leaves of absence under new and existing laws, day-to-day human resources matters, and return to work obligations. 

February 25, 2021: Managing Workload

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Title: Managing Workload
Description:

The pandemic, move to remote work, and dependent care challenges bring issues of workload to the forefront.  We complain about having too much to do in too little time but rarely do we make a concerted effort to identify and address root causes.  It’s not just a case of staffing capacity.  Often, individual behaviors and organizational culture push folks to take on more and more with expectations of immediacy.  In this session, we will discuss strategies at the individual, supervisory, and organizational levels.  We’ll also model and talk about what that process for tackling workload might look like within your organization.

This session will be facilitated by Gordon Gottlieb, Human Resources Consultant at TDC, who’s work focuses on the evolving human resource and board development needs of small to medium sized nonprofit organizations throughout New England.  Gordon is an annual presenter at the NPFM.

January 28, 2021: Remote control

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Title: Remote control
Description:

Employers are asking, “What do I need to pay attention to in this world of increasingly remote work?” Saleha Walsh, VP of Insource’s HR practice group and DaQuall Graham, Insource’s Director of Talent Development will provide an overview of the key considerations as workforces become increasingly more remote, and may continue to do so, post-pandemic. They will review operational, compliance, security, and organizational culture challenges and opportunities currently facing small businesses as we adjust to this new reality.  Participants will:

o Identify workplace challenges and opportunities

o Examine suggested security considerations, training and policies

o Explore reimbursement trends

o Discuss practices and strategies for employee engagement, efficiencies, and automation

o Consider multi-state employment differences to pay attention to

o Review benefit considerations

2021-01-28 NPFM Managing Remote Workforce – Insource Presentation