Northampton, England, November 3rd, 2017

As most charities and not for profit organisations continue to buckle under the funding pressure, having volunteers makes it easy and amazing. It makes it easier to get work done when you have volunteers working for you who offer their services for nothing in return.
Being dependent on the volunteers have been the mainstay for a lot of organisations, but this could inadvertently be considered to be illegal. You have to be aware of the risk that if your organisation is managing volunteers, they can potentially be viewed as employees within your organisation.
As an employer, you obviously do not give payments to a person working as a volunteer for your organisation. In many cases, these payments are made in the form of providing them food and drinks. While the person is doing volunteer work for your organisation, you need to make sure that you give them their travel expense and any equipment that they need during the working hours. Paying expenses should be a genuine reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses rather than a fixed amount per week.
According to the government, if a person while volunteering for an organisation is been paid any other rewards or benefits they are termed as workers or employees of that organisation. This includes any promise of a contract or paid work in the future.
For example, some volunteers are given travel expenses on a weekly or monthly basis and they have to travel to a regular place as a part of their volunteering job. However, if the volunteers get the expenses but decide to walk there instead that will be counted as a contract of employment. Because of which they could be eligible for a minimum wage.
Therefore, having a payroll system that manages everything including the volunteers is a must. Payroll.co.uk is a firm that will help you achieve that efficiency of services and a managed payroll system for your organisation. To know about them, you can log on to their website www.payroll.co.uk

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