I am from New Zealand. Can I ask you for help? I am working for a nonprofit. I have a concern against my manager. It was
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Customer: Hello I am from New Zealand. Can I ask you for help?
JA: Was this discussed with a manager or HR? Or with a lawyer?
Customer: I am working for a nonprofit. I have a concern against my manager. It was already discussed by the Board meeting.
JA: Are you an "at will" employee? Do you belong to a union?
Customer: No, I don't belong to a union.
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Customer: Dear Sir/MadamI work for a nonprofit organisation in Auckland as a contractor.Last year, I raised a concern about the management of the organisation to the Board. It was about my manager requesting me to work on an irrelevant job and her inconsistency in dealing with it. I questioned her about it, but because of the nature of the job, I wanted to keep it confidential. I didn't seek any help from someone outside the workplace.I experienced a lot of unreasonable treatment by her (including intimidation) while making a lot of personal sacrifices in handling the job.Then, I requested the Board to intervene the issue. In a Board meeting last August, it was decided that the Board would make recommendations about the scope of the organisation's activities and have my manager answer to my questions to clarify all my concerns.I had waited for the Board to be ready, but I hadn't heard from them for a long time.Last month, suddenly I came to know that the last Board meeting decided to close the issue without my presence, being controlled by my manager.We are very small organisation with two staff (my manager and I). Therefore there should be no problem for me to raise concerns directly to the Board. However, my manager always interfere between me and the Board.For example, it was my manager wrote a letter to inform me of the closure of the issue on behalf of the Board. This is strange because my concern was against her. I find that she violated the neutrality of the Board.Then I requested the manager and the Board to rethink their decision. My manager requested me to send a list of my questions that was originally submitted to the Board.She gave me unsatisfactory answers, and so I said that I was going to make my comments on her answers. In response, she requested me to send the comments by 5 pm on Monday 13 April.I argued that it should be the Board members who could decide by when I would need to send my comments, but she insisted that, because my contract agreement says that I report to her, I should send my comments to her. Again, I am not happy with the way she deals with my concern.The Board members are not familiar with these matters, unfortunately. They just respond to my manager's call passively. No Board members seem to be able to respond to my concerns now.Another example of inadequacy is that my manager threatened me in her answer to my question. She says that "regarding the principles on how I operate, if you disagree, you are welcome to leave the organisation." This is strange again because it seems that she believes that she is everything in the organisation, which shouldn't be like that in a nonprofit organisation.
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