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Legal
status and regulations regarding volunteers in Europe:
The
legal status of volunteers in the UK, from
National
Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO):
"There is currently no legislation specifically covering volunteer
workers. Neither is there any legal definition of what a voluntary worker
is."
‘
Job
substitution or volunteer substitution?’ Alan Strickland
(Volunteering England) and Nick Ockenden (Institute for Volunteering
Research) 22 June 2011
Legal
Framework of Volunteers in Europe, by country. Produced as part of
the
European
Year of Volunteering 2011
Global
Trends in NGO Law , The Legal Framework for Volunteerism (ICNL), 2010
Opinion
on the European Commission Communication on EU Policies and Volunteering
(EESC), 2012
An
article
explaining the difference between a "volunteer" and a "voluntary worker"
in the UK (for instance, the former cannot be asked to sign a
contract or receive any training that isn't directly related to his or her
work)
gov.uk
official information on volunteer placements, rights and expenses
(United Kingdom-specific)
For comparison:
Overview of legal definitions and
laws re: volunteers in the USA.
Wiki
Contents
- More about
the overall project & researchers
- About
Internet-mediated volunteering
- The
information we are seeking / How to submit information
- Outreach for this project
- Challenges to
this research (obstacles faced in gathering information)
- Case studies
(Europe focus)
- Online
Volunteering-related recruitment or matching web sites
- Organisations that involve
online volunteers in the EU
- Resources related to volunteering as a contributor to employability
- Resources related to
arguments against and concerns about volunteering by
unions/professionals in Europe
- Resources and research
related to Internet-mediated volunteering (focused on, but not
limited to, Europe)
- Resources related
to telecommuting, virtual teams and remote management
- Legal status and regulations
regarding volunteers
- Resources
related to volunteer engagement and volunteerism in EU countries
statistics, studies, volunteer centres, volunteer matching sites,
sites for volunteers, sites for those that want to involve volunteers,
etc.
- Online work sites for
pay (rather than virtual volunteering sites, for no pay) -
examples and studies
- RSS feeds for
keywords associated with Internet-mediated volunteering
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