Volunteers

Here are the three best resources I have found on the web that address the legal issues organizations in Canada should be aware of when engaging volunteers:

"Volunteers and The Law" (April 2007), prepared by David Stout and Loreen Irvine, lawyers at Nelligan O'Brien Payne in Ottawa;
"Volunteers & the law: A guide for volunteers, organizations and boards" (2000), prepared the People's Law School; and
"Volunteers" Employment Standards fact sheet, Government of Manitoba.

Volunteer relationship with Rape Relief Society captured by definition of "employment" in BC Human Rights Code

Submitted by: Greg Gowe on 2002/01/21

Topics: - BC Court of Appeal - BC Human Rights Tribunal - Volunteers

Jurisdiction: - British Columbia

Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society, 2002 BCHRT 1

(Postscript: this decision was reversed on other grounds, Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon, 2003 BCSC 1936; upheld at 2005 BCCA 601),

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Volunteer relationship with Rape Relief Society captured by definition of "employment" in BC Human Rights Code

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