Your Move Games Will Be Closed This Sunday (Aug 2nd) For Renovations!

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

Also, we're looking for a few extra hands to help renovate the space!  Basically, we will be: clearing the space of fixtures and stock, doing a quick scrub of the walls, painting the walls assembling Ikea shelves to put up moving the stock back onto the shelves! Festivities will kick off at 10am this Sunday, and we will be paying $9/hour in store credit.  The store is pretty small, so the work should go quickly, especially if we get 4-6 people to come help. If you are interested, please email me at tyler(AT)pandemoniumbooks(DOT)com.  Also let me know if you have a Phillips head screwdriver and/or a tack hammer that you could bring with you.  We will need as many as possible to get the Ikea shelves together. Hope to see you there!

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I am not a lawyer

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Festivities will kick off at 10am this Sunday, and we will be paying $9/hour in store credit.

I am not a a lawyer, but this made my ears prick up. You might want to run this by a lawyer familiar with federal and state employment law. In particular, you might want to read Chapter 30 of the Federal Labor Standards Act.

Re: I am not a lawyer

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

I am not a lawyer either, but I am a long-time Pandemonium customer who's helped out with inventory and (occasionally) moving stuff around for a similar 'wage' before. This is more of a volunteer thing that happens to carry store credit as a perk. It's not steady work, it's not really a paying gig, and they're upfront about all that. I don't think labor laws really apply in this situation. (Pandemonium's actual employees are paid an actual wage, not company scrip, never fear.)

Although I am amused to note that Pandemonium's been doing this for, what, ten years or so, first in Harvard Square, then in Central, right in the heart of the People's Republic of Cambridge, and this is the first time anyone's brought labor standards into it, to my knowledge. Welcome to Davis Square, guys.

Re: I am not a lawyer

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that I can pay people for "occasional labor" without having to deal with W-4s, I-9s, withheld taxes, forms signed in blood made out in triplicate under a gibbous moon, etc.

All that stuff is for my regular employees only.