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Except they knew it upfront. ...which I would argue would be the relevant criteria. Signing up for unpaid community duties and then trying to pressure myself i
by fwn 10y ago
Except they knew it upfront. ...which I would argue would be the relevant criteria.
Signing up for unpaid community duties and then trying to pressure myself into a job does not feel honest to me, at all.
- fenomas 10y agoIt wasn't unpaid community duties, it was compensated work that provided value to a corporation. IANAL, but I think the premise is that, as far as employment law is concerned, they were already in a job.
- ddoran 10y agoCompetitor Group are being sued in a class action lawsuit [0] by a road race volunteer claiming that volunteers were actually laborers being exploited by the defendant and in breach of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Competitor Group argued for dismissal but their arguments were denied and the case is moving forward. So the courts will decide if, despite "knowing upfront" that they were volunteering, such "work" constitutes "labor". This could have a huge impact at (for-profit) races all over the country that rely on unpaid volunteers, not to mention other for-profit entities use of "volunteers", including YouTube/Google. [0] http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1849&context=historical http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...