GC: n

S: http://www.unv.org/how-to-volunteer/register-to-be-a-un-volunteer/humanitarian-and-peacekeeping-operations.html (last access: 23 February 2013); http://www.unv.org/how-to-volunteer/register-to-be-a-un-volunteer/humanitarian-and-peacekeeping-operations.html (last access: 4 September 2014); https://www.gov.uk/donate-volunteer-humanitarian-disaster (last access: 4 September 2014).

N: 1. volunteer (n.): c.1600, “one who offers himself for military service,” from Middle French voluntaire, “one who volunteers,” also as an adjective, “voluntary,” from Latin voluntarius “voluntary, of one’s free will,” as a plural noun “volunteers” (see voluntary). Non-military sense is first recorded 1630s. As an adjective from 1640s. Tennessee has been the Volunteer State since the Mexican War, when a call for 2,800 volunteers brought out 30,000 men.
2. Voluntary workers are workers who do not qualify for the national minimum wage.
A voluntary worker works for a charity, voluntary organisation, associated fund raising body or a statutory body who does not receive:
– any benefits in kind, except some or all of his subsistence and/or accommodation which is reasonable in the circumstances of the employment, nor
– any monetary payment, except

• ​reimbursement of expenses actually incurred (or reasonably estimated as likely to be or to have been incurred) in the performance of their duties, for example purchase of required uniform or tools, or
• reimbursement of expenses actually incurred (or reasonably estimated as likely to be or to have been incurred) to enable the worker to perform their duties and that are not accommodation expenses, for example home to work transport costs or increased childcare costs.

The only exception to these conditions is where the voluntary worker is employed to work under arrangements made by a charity (in the course of its charitable purposes) and the work is done for another charity, voluntary organisation, an associated fund-raising body or statutory body. In these circumstances the subsistence may be paid instead of provided as a benefit in kind.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=volunteer&searchmode=none (last access: 4 September 2014). 2. https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/definition-voluntary-worker-national-minimum-wage-purposes (last access: 23 August 2016).

SYN: voluntary worker

S: https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/definition-voluntary-worker-national-minimum-wage-purposes (last access: 23 August 2016); Cosnautas/Libro rojo (last access: 23 August 2016).

CR: collaborator, cooperant.