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If it's a for-profit company, calling workers “volunteers” doesn't exempt them from wage laws. but no one reports it because the whole industry thrives on passion and guilt. They call it “volunteering” to dodge accountability while profiting off your exhaustion.
Do you happen to know who would I report this to?
Dang.. this is a LOT. Your concerns are valid. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, for-profit employers are generally required to pay employees at least the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 per hour. Labeling workers as "volunteers" does not exempt employers from this obligation. If you're working set hours and performing assigned duties, you should be compensated accordingly. Have you asked other people on that? If you get more people on the same problem, you might want to look for an HR responsable or even a legal professional.
If they are paying you at all then you are not a volunteer. Now they could call you a "contract worker" but that should involve a contract where you sign off before hand on what you will be receiving.
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I'd rather keep this conversation open, as others may learn something as well.
*I got some sparky comments, which I responded to with the following. Since it has more detail, I'm adding it as it's own comment.*
There's a character limit to posts, so I couldn't add as much detail as I wanted.
They're all seasonal positions, rather than one night. That they can and do fire people over.
As for what I should know before agreeing to the gig: I wasn't concerned with the legality of these places until the most recent one's owner started acting suspicious. He refused to put previously agreed wages in writing. The Indeed post I applied through had been taken down after I applied, and I could not find anything about wages on the haunt's website. I asked for confirmation on the wages since I couldn't find it anywhere. He refused, claiming it wasn't "professional" to confirm previously agreed-upon wages in any form of writing. Which makes no sense.
The amount wasn't and isn't the issue for me. It's the behavior surrounding the topic that had me concerned. If I had an doubt before applying, I wouldn't have applied. 🙄
The haunt that hired me for this year is no longer active in the Secretary of State's filings of businesses. It was dissolved last year for failing to file their annual reports, and has not been reinstated. SOS told me they should not even be operating. I was right in that they were not legally sound.