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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 7699953" data-attributes="member: 11821">A for-profit company cannot replace their employees with volunteers. If they are using volunteers in a capacity that should be filled by employees, they are in the wrong.If you love a restaurant, you can't volunteer to wait tables for them in exchange for a free meal. Why not? Because the restaurant is a business, and businesses need to follow some pretty strict laws regarding their workforce. Some of those laws protect the employees, some the business, and some the customers.By the same token, those unpaid 'volunteer' resume-building jobs have largely become paid positions over the past years. I know my own company no longer has any unpaid interns.If these particular judges didn't know anything about the legal intricacies of volunteer work and later found out that they were basically unpaid employees and deserved a wage, then I can't possibly see anything morally wrong with seeking legal remedy now that they are no longer ignorant.What's unethical about realizing you've been taken advantage of?I mean if we're talking ethics, how about the ethics of a subsidiary of Hasbro - not exactly a mom & pop operation - trying to cut costs by conning the people who love their products into doing the work of employees and not paying them for it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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