Category: Classifying Roles in a Cooperative

Volunteers are people that do work for charitable, religious, or humanitarian benefit. Before taking on volunteers, a cooperative should understand who is considered a volunteer along with the rules and exceptions specific to volunteers. The

An independent contractor is a person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services under a written contract or a verbal agreement. Independence and cooperation sound somewhat like opposites, but they are actually closely intertwined

In order to make a distinction between types of worker-owners, it’s important to apply a test or series of tests that have been developed for determining who is a member of an enterprise. Below, we