Pay employee volunteers to work at charity event?
CalifCallie
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Our company is co-sponsoring a nonprofit community event. We will have a booth where we will give out refreshments as well as company logo items. The event is on a Sunday. If employees volunteer to work the company booth, must we pay them? They are there for the community charities, including the town food pantry, but they will be in the company booth. The volunteers are a mix of exempt and nonexempt employees.
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Since you are giving out company logo items that will (hopefully) directly benefit the company, even though this is a nonprofit event, I would say yes, you would still need to pay them. If they were just handing out food from the pantry, that would be different.
Also how "voluntary" is it?