Volunteer or Employee

Volunteer

A

An individual who performs hours of service for a public agency for civic, charitable, or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation for services rendered, is considered to be a volunteer during such hours. Individuals performing hours of service for such a public agency will be considered volunteers for the time so spent and not subject to sections 6,7, and 11 of the FLSA when such hours of service are performed in accord with sections 3(e)(4)(A) and (B)of the FLSA and the guidelines in this subpart.

B

Congress did not intend to discourage or impede volunteer activities undertaken for civic, charitable, or humanitarian purposes, but expressed its wish toprevent any manipulation or abuse of minimum wage or overtime requirements through coercion or undue pressure upon individuals to“volunteer” their services.

C

Individuals shall be considered volunteers only where their services are offered freely and without pressure or coercion, direct or implied, from an employer.

D

An individual shall not be considered a volunteer if the individual is otherwise employed by the same public agency to perform the same type of services as those for which the individual proposes to volunteer.

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My point of view:

According to point C: services from a volunteer are being offered freely and thus no pressure or whatsoever should be incurred from the employer. In this case, I would rather be a volunteer than to be an employee. So starting from this month itself, I declared myself a volunteer and resigned myself from being an employee. I feel happier this way as it won't interfer with my personal relationship with the boss.

Form 6 or A-level

In my point of view, I guess Form 6 is much preferable than A-Level. Much is needed for financing the A- Level whereas Form 6 doesn't need much. Since the Science streams also offers Sciences in English, it wouldn't be difficult at all.

Furthermore, PA helps the students to maintain their BM which is rather useful too. Other than that, there's MUET which is really helpful in the sense that the students get to improve their English.

Apart from that, students have more time with their families before they go further for their tertiary studies. I would actually encourage my kids to do Form 6.

Care for sick dog

I have never cared for a sick dog before. This is the first time ever when I have to care for my boxer dog. She's sick with sores on her body. She has been treated at the vet's clinic for a month. Now that she is home, I have to do my part. I would take care of her till she heals, I pray.

Thinking of her sufferings makes me sad. What can I do. She has been a good dog. Even when now that she's suffering, she still keep quiet and never even bark.

I pray that she would heal faster as I don't like to see her suffer.

Communication

I believe that communication is very important. In the very beginning of a relationship, there must be lots of communication. Don't worry about quarrels or fights. One should communicate so that whatever misunderstanding could be resolved. 

If one just keeps quiet and not bothered to communicate, it's really bad for both parties. One misunderstanding could lead to another and so on.

So, always take the chance to communicate with our kids as they will grow up real fast and in no time, we don't have the time to communicate at all..

New Year Resolution

New Year is here. Are you glad that we still survived? We thought that we might have died days ago. But thank God we survived.

So any resolution for the new year? I bet many of us still struggle to think of what they are supposed to achieve or change for the year.

As for me, I don't actually write down any resolution. I just need to do what I'm capable of doing rather than writing down what I'm supposed to do.

With each passing year, we get older and of course wiser too. We shouldn't be moving backwards. We should be proceeding forward and think of things or situations positively..

Believe

Have you ever believe in anything so much so that you would never be shattered out of it? I have always believe that we need to be kind to others especially the elderly. When I see those elderly people and the difficulties that they face, I believe that somehow they need attention and love from people around them.

If possible, we need to show our tender love to those people around us. Never forgetting our parents and our older relatives. Always make we allot some time to visit them and show our compassion to them. They need love to survive and live on..

Follow your dreams

Have you ever dream of something big and wonder if you would ever achieve it? Most people do and I believe we stop ourselves from achieving our dreams if we don't believe it. So we need to follow our dream. Make it happen and see what we could achieve. It's never too difficult provided we just sit and wait.

Nothing will come by if we just sit and wait. If you have a dream, don't fear of its impossibility. Try harder and you will see that your dreams could be achieved!