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Old 03-09-2013, 08:45 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
There are laws about unfair competition, but they do not apply in this case. Any company or person is free to make use of volunteer labour.
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Maybe they can and maybe they can't. It wouldn't be a case of unfair competition, but it gets very gray around minimum wage laws. A for-profit company very rarely can accept direct unpaid volunteer labor without falling afoul of the minimum wage requirements. A non-profit almost always can. As long as there is no direct financial ties between the for-profit and the non-profit, the for-profit may use the output of the non-profit. You would need to talk to a lawyer that specializes in this for details.

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