[cma-l] Volunteers, charity, and back to work schemes

[Ron Millet]

Offer the position as a job, paid where the wages are donated back to the station.

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> On 5 Jan 2016, at 18:36, Resonance104.4fm <info at resonancefm.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> I wonder if anyone in the CMA world is up to date on how to address the back-to-work schemes which apparently oblige people to work in Poundland and such like; and prevent them accordingly from volunteering at our radio station.
> Several volunteers here are distressed that instead of being able to offeri us their services, they are being forced to take more or less unpaid work elsewhere. I do not know how best to address this nor whom to approach.
> Any constructive advice would be appreciated.
> Thanks and a Happy New Year!
> Yours
> Ed
> 
> PS I really do not wish to start a long thread about the iniquities of government policy, the shoddy goods on sale at bucket shops, the brutalities of post-industrial capitalism, the true nature of the PRS, etc.
> 
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