Because:
- We are a Not For Profit and it is really unusual to pay committee members. We are NOT BP
- If committee members are unpaid volunteers they have a lot of legal protection under Queensland law
- It is a very bad look when traders are selling soap at 1UNIT and Committee members are billing the system for 1000 UNITS
- We are a trading organization, not a bureaucracy organization if we pour money into the bureaucracy we will get more bureaucracy
- because accepting payment makes me an employee and I’m NOT an employee, I’m a trader.
BUT
Committee members are members as well, I see no harm in them being paid to do work for the organisation
Just like every other member
I could be wrong
and there is plenty of room for other arrangements but this is what I am thinking
what do you think ?
4 responses to “I don’t think that our Committee members should be paid UNITS.”
I have been a non profit management committee member for different groups since 1995. I have only ever seen nominal amounts of money, like $100, paid as honorarium to management committee members.
The idea of taking units is not something necessary for me to stay but damn I will be charging if everyone else is and the admin accound no longer has a limit.
thankyou Kelly, I value your input
I gather there is a move to not pay anyone to be a committee member
This comes from the committee members.
We shall see
Personally, I would like to be flexible. If someone asks for payments in units for work that fall inside their roles – I don’t want to make rules
This is Roy Hanfling’s blog, it doesn’t represent the commitee
BUT EITHER WAY
I don’t think I will be accepting units for being a committee member or doing the the work that comes with that role.
I thought of a 5th reason on the way to work.
At one time (years ago) I was offered payment some jobs I did for the committee.
I declined and I was recalling one big factor was that accepting payment from the person who controlled the purse string meant that I became their employee.
I am not an employee, I am a trader.
I don’t have any bosses in this here organisation and I don’t want any
I am here to serve the interests of the organisation and the people who voted for me.
Truth, fraternity and an alternative to money.
Good for you lovely. The employee issue stings a bit. I know tbat some past committee members saw it as paying themselves, hands in the kitty which makes it less like an employee/employer role but more nasty.
once upon a time, in a LETS far far far away
I read that
The committee took all the levies and paid them to themselves
The most important people got the most
and
The “volunteers” who worked under them got nothing 🙂
I remember calling it “Feudal Slavery” and some people got a wee bit cross with me.