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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turkeygiant" data-source="post: 7699871" data-attributes="member: 6787083">That's pretty much it, there are definitions in labour law (depending on where you live) that cannot be opted out of even if employer and employee both would like to. This creates a situation where someone can agree to work as an unpaid intern or volunteer, even sign that they agree to do so, but if they come back later and say "wait I really should have been paid for that work" that pre-agreement isn't worth the paper it is printed on.In the case of interns the work they are doing should be educational in nature, and with volunteers the work should be something that someone would not usually be paid for. The issue arises when you find out that a intern or volunteer is doing work that is profit generating, or if the work they are doing is the same work that someone else is being paid for. And if after doing that work a intern or volunteer realizes that they have been taken advantage of and they have been doing what should have be paid work, they have a right to those wages.</blockquote>