Volunteering for work experience this winter break? Now the government can fine that too.

California state officials have fined a small winery an amount over a
decade’s worth of profits because they allowed volunteers to work in
their facility. Reason’s Scott Shackford posits that this is just
another example of the state’s hostile business climate, firing a
warning shot at businesses (and volunteers) that benefit from this
common practice.
 

 

 

 

By Agne27 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, not an image of anyone or anything in the actual scenario discussed in the article

 

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