Over the holidays, a number of areas of the country experienced severe weather, from blizzard conditions to thunderstorms and tornadoes. Blog readers and HR contacts in the industry have been sending questions, posting on social media, and calling with questions ...
Read More »Volunteers and the FLSA: When Public Sector Employers Must Pay for Volunteer Work
Last week, we discussed the rules governing when for-profit, private sector and non-profit employers could accept “volunteer” services. Private sector employers have very little flexibility, while non-profit employers have a little bit more. The third group of employers, public sector employers, have the ...
Read More »Volunteers and the FLSA: When Non-Profit Employers Must Pay for Volunteer Work
In yesterday’s post, we discussed the rules governing when for-profit, private sector employers can accept “volunteer” services. In short, the answer is not very often. However, public sector and nonprofit employers have more flexibility when under the Fair Labor Standards ...
Read More »Volunteers and the FLSA: When Employers Must Pay for Volunteer Work
Earlier this week, a reader commented on our Integrity Staffing discussion with this question: If an employee-who normally processes insurance claims-volunteered to decorate a bulletin board for a special event and arrived to the employer’s premises an hour before the start ...
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