Labor code thwarts restoration projects. Volunteers must earn prevailing wage.
Efforts to restore watershed habitats throughout California, including several in the Bay Area, are threatened because the state is using a largely unknown law to force nonprofit groups to pay prevailing wages to volunteers on their publicly funded projects.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGGP60LO91.DTL
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