Online
and print articles about or addressing controversies regarding
volunteers replacing paid staff
Europe-focused articles.
Spending cuts 'destroying big society' concept, says retiring head of
Community Service Volunteers (CSV), 7 February 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12378974
Accessed June 19, 2013
The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity, 6 February
2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/06/david-cameron-big-society-coalition
Accessed June 19, 2013
Quote from article: "The ugly implication, habitual to champions of the
big society, is that such unpaid civic activity does not support every
established charity and volunteer effort."
Liverpool withdraws from government 'big society' pilot, 4 February 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12357450
Accessed June 19, 2013
Summary: Liverpool City Council leader said government cuts threaten the
future of many local volunteer groups.
Big Society’ volunteering in long term care must not substitute for
skilled paid staff”, Feb 10 2012
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/2012/02/10/big-society-volunteers-care-sector/
Journal Name: British Politics and Policy at LSE
Accessed June 17, 2013 "Volunteer workers could transform the long-term
care sector. However, Shereen Hussein emphasizes that a greater
understanding of the strengths and weakness of a voluntary workforce is
needed in order to effectively identify the services it is best equipped
to provide. The government should think of volunteers as a complement to
professional staff rather than their replacement."
Librarians in Southampton (U.K.) striking in 2010 over efforts to replace
paid workers with volunteers, 12 July 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10599564
Accessed June 19, 2013
Unison union branch secretary Mike Tucker says in this article: "Libraries
need professional staff to provide a modern service to the people of
Southampton. Untrained, unskilled, unreliable volunteers will not provide
this service.”
A Charter for Strengthening Relations Between Paid Staff and Volunteers:
Volunteering England and the TUC, xxdate
http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-17329-f0.pdf
The involvement of volunteers should complement and supplement the work of
paid staff, and should not be used to displace paid staff or undercut
their pay and conditions of service. • The added value of volunteers
should be highlighted as part of commissioning or grant- making process
but their involvement should not be used to reduce contract costs.
UK Wants Volunteers to Make Up for Massive Public Service Cuts, February
09, 2011
Labor Notes
http://www.labornotes.org/2011/02/uk-wants-volunteers-make-massive-public-service-cuts#sthash.BlRsnUGr.dpuf
Accessed June 19, 2013
‘Job substitution or volunteer substitution?’ Alan Strickland
(Volunteering England) and Nick Ockenden (Institute for Volunteering
Research) 22 June 2011
http://www.cypfconsortium.org.uk/UserFiles/File/job_substitution_volunteer_substitution_ockenden_strickland_2011_06_.pdf
Accessed June 19, 2013
Un sindicato de Bomberos carga contra los voluntarios por negarse a acudir
a Rasquera
20minutos.es
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1486502/0/
Accessed June 19, 2013
Summary: A union of professional fire fighters had harsh words against
Catalunya volunteer firefighters for refusing to work on extinguishing a
fire that burned 3,000 acres, as leverage for improvements in their
working conditions.
Los voluntarios de ambulancias, en riesgo (Ambulance volunteers at risk),
5 May 2013
20minutos.es
http://blogs.20minutos.es/tu-blog/2013/04/05/los-voluntarios-de-ambulancias-en-riesgo/
Accessed June 19, 2013
A Civil Defence in a town near Madrid laments pressure by a private
ambulance companies lead the state to eliminate volunteer involvement.
Protección Civil
Copyright © 2012 Ayuntamiento de Cangas del Narcea.
http://www.ayto-cnarcea.es/proteccion-civil
Accessed June 19, 2013
Civil Protection Volunteers do not replace or supersede intervention
services, but collaborate, complement and support the actions of those and
always request of citizens or administrations concerned.
Bénévoles et salariés : alliés ou adversaires ? (Volunteers and employees:
allies or adversaries?)
http://bdp.calvados.fr/cms/accueilBDP/la-vie-des-bibliotheques/boite-a-outils/le-benevolat-en-bibliotheque/benevoles-et-salaries-allies-ou-adversaires
Accessed June 19, 2013
This online document asserts that “The presence of employees should not be
a barrier to volunteering and volunteering should not be an obstacle to
the presence of an employee... The role of the volunteer is not a
substitute for a lack of staff but to be complementary to a team.”
Le statut des collaborateurs (the status of employees), Gestion
Associative (management associations), on the Associanet media, quoting
UNEDIC Directives from 1996
Accessed June 19, 2013
http://www.associanet.com/docs/collabo.html
Volunteer activities are alleged unprofessional within the following
limits:
- Volunteer activities in the framework of an associative movement
should not replace staff who would normally undertake the
administrative activities of the organization in question, and
associations are to avoid the recruitment of such personnel that would
affect the payment of benefits.
- Volunteers should not undertake functions performed by a former
employee of an agency, even if it is a non-profit and even if the
functions performed are not paid
- Never considered volunteers positions held in for-profit
organizations
Analysis: Balancing staff with volunteers
Third Sector, 20 September 2011
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/Article/1092329/Analysis-Balancing-staff-volunteers.?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0
Third Sector
Haymarket Professional Publications
Accessed June 19, 2013
Volunteers are replacing staff
“When charities are forced to make redundancies, some bring in more
volunteers. Stephen Cook and Ben Cook discover that it's a sensitive
subject in the sector, and Mark Wilding talks to three charities about how
they're handling it.”
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