At 11:23 PM 3/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I certainly hope these 'volunteers' are exempt from wages & hours
>legislation. If not, they may not LEGALILY 'volunteer.' Gotta watch that
>sort of stuff. Best.
>

Yes, you always have to watch the legal details, but if the staff in
question are salaried and not paid by the hour, they can work more than 40
hours without being paid extra. This may not be nice, but it is legal and
very common. I suspect most on the list would think of a forty hour week as
a short one.   Both salaried and hourly staff can receeve compensatory time
off instead of overtime for work beyond their usual amount. Also, if people
truly volunteer (and this can be slippery slope, I admit) they can pretty
much do what they want with their own time. Bill Mulligan



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