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Volunteering

It is good practice for employers to support employees doing volunteer work within the community or for charity. Supporting volunteers helps the organisation to build relationships with the local community and improve how it is perceived within it. Employees who do volunteer work can use the skills that they have developed at work to help the community.

Some organisations, such as charities, can also engage volunteers to carry out work for them. Volunteering agreements are often considered to be informal agreements that do not amount to contracts of employment. However, the employment status of volunteers can be unclear and there have been a number of cases in which volunteers have claimed that they are workers or employees.


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    Emergency Volunteer Leave: what HR needs to know

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Apr 2020

    Announced in the Coronavirus Bill last month, the government intends to introduce a temporary right to statutory emergency volunteering leave...

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    Airline crew asked to join NHS Nightingale Hospitals initiative

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2020

    Thousands of EasyJet and Virgin employees have been asked to work at the temporary NHS hospitals.

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    Met Police asks retired officers to return

    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Mar 2020

    The Metropolitan Police Service is calling on retired officers to return to duty and urging those nearing retirement to stay...

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    Consultation includes protections from third-party sexual harassment

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2019

    The government has published its consultation on plans to strengthen protections against sexual harassment at work, including harassment from third...

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    Introduce a social purpose to business and reap the career rewards

    by Gillian Murray 20 May 2019
    by Gillian Murray 20 May 2019

    A programme that seeks to introduce the know-how and vision of business leaders with charities found that the businesses experienced gained as much as the charities in terms of recruitment, skills and development.

    • Employee engagement
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    Skills-based volunteering can boost employee engagement

    by Bruce McCombie 24 Feb 2018
    by Bruce McCombie 24 Feb 2018

    With younger employees increasingly believing business should be a force for good, Bruce McCombie from Pilotlight looks at how skills-based...

    • Compassionate leave
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    “Pawternity” leave? Time off work for pets and other leave of the future

    by Susan Dennehy 1 Dec 2016
    by Susan Dennehy 1 Dec 2016

    Around half of UK households own a pet, according to the RSPCA. So why is there not a specific legal...

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    How skills-based volunteering can boost careers

    by Bev Frain 30 Sep 2016
    by Bev Frain 30 Sep 2016

    Many employers see volunteering as a way to boost team dynamics and give something back. Skills-based volunteering takes this one...

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    Congratulation leave? Unusual types of leave from around the world

    by Claire Scullin 14 Jan 2016
    by Claire Scullin 14 Jan 2016

    Anyone thinking that the UK’s upcoming grandparental leave is unnecessary meddling by law-makers should look beyond these shores at the...

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    Conservatives promise paid volunteering leave for employees

    by Rob Moss 10 Apr 2015
    by Rob Moss 10 Apr 2015

    The Conservative party has announced that public-sector employers and large companies would have to allow staff three paid volunteering days’...

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