• muppeth@scribe.disroot.org
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    4 hours ago

    What’s to stop an employer from hiring someone, paying them a few bucks an hour and calling them “volunteers”?

    Because most likely would not find volunteers that are ok being paid approx. 170euro a month. Also I think this setting is only applicable to foundations and associations.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes and that’s why volunteer fees are nowhere near minimum wage. It’s basically a way to compensate all sort of volunteers helping out non-profits. IMO it’s quite a good system and more of a symbolic then a real pay.

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          2 hours ago

          volunteer fees are nowhere near minimum wage

          Brother, that is the problem that I’m trying to highlight…if no one worked for less than minimum wage, no one would need a minimum wage…

          Believe it or not, many “non-profits” are not ethical. At least not in the US, I won’t speak to NL or anywhere else.