An innovative clothing consignment business travels from location to location using consigning parents as volunteers — but now the Department of Labor says the parents need to be treated as employees. [Rhea Lana Riner, USA Today]
An innovative clothing consignment business travels from location to location using consigning parents as volunteers — but now the Department of Labor says the parents need to be treated as employees. [Rhea Lana Riner, USA Today]
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The entire business model is communist. We should have no problems with regulating it out of business {/snark}.
I think she has a good point and should likely prevail. IMHO, the parents who contribute clothes are not customers or employees, but part owners of their own business…
Rhea Lana is breaking my heart. With income of nearly 3 million dollars in 2010 (probably 5 million in 2012) and franchises selling like hot cakes, why should she pay the workers that enable her business?
She pays rent – is that because she can’t get other capitalists to “volunteer” the physical spaces they own?
Her laborers probably don’t want to be paid for their work.
She ought to just do it without the volunteers. She can work as much as she wants without paying herself. oddly enough, I’m pretty sure she does pay herself.
Gee, Frank…hope the snark filter was on.
Does the Dept of Labor do the same for community garage sales? Do we really care if the model she creates makes a lot of money? Sounds pretty opportunistic to me, but not by the “exploited”.
Like so many other great ideas, they get hit by the unintended consequences of regulation for bygone eras. The government should NOT to do anything and let us decide for ourselves.