[MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?

[Mud Imp]

On the subject of volunteers and whether they should be paid or not:
The following concerns a US operated organization called the Peace Corp.
This is an excerpt directly from recruiting information FOR the peace
corp.

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		What is the Peace Corps?

  Basically, joining the Peace Corps means that you'll go to a foreign
country (where English may not be spoken) and do some kind of service
there at the request of its government. Whether it's teaching, or helping
sick children, or working with the government on cleaning up an urban
city, it's probably not going to be the kind of work we usually think of
as "glamorous."

  The world has changed since John F. Kennedy founded the Peace Corps in
1961. Although many volunteers still live and work in rural villages, and
haul their drinking water from a nearby river, it is now just as common to
find a volunteer giving computer training to university staff in a city
and going home at night to electricity and running water.

  What hasn't changed is the fact that joining the Peace Corps is a JOB,
and volunteers still work, teach, and learn while completely immersed in
another culture for two years (that's approximately 730 days, for those of
you scoring at home). They have the chance to participate in a
professional and cultural exchange that can have life-long educational
benefits for all parties involved. Volunteers have the opportunity to
prove that Americans' lives are not identical to those of the characters
on Beverly Hills, 90210. Likewise, the country's citizens can prove that
there's more to a country than what you see on CNN.

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Now Peace Corp doesn't pay any of their volunteers. BUT they do compensate
them. They receive a small monthly living allowance that will hopefuly
cover the basic necessitie4s and some travel. And when you return to the
US they give you 6000.00 to help you re-adjust when you return. They also
give you resume credit, student loan deferment and other benifits.

These people do NOT get paid minumum wage or anything close to it and they
never will. AND they are backed by the united states federal government.

Me thinks, that if the courts are going to declare that volunteers HAVE to
be paid minimum wage if they were told they would be given any kind of
compensation, then I think the premier volunteer group needs to have to do
that as wel.






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