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- Common questions
- Starting a not for profit
- Do we have to register our Not For Profit?
- Is my organisation legally required to incorporate?
- What does 'Not For Profit' mean?
- What does 'incorporated' mean?
- What legal structure should we incorporate with?
- What types of legal structures are available for my Not For Profit?
- Which Acts and Regulations apply to our Not For Profit?
- Why would my organisation want to incorporate?
- How do I find my organisation’s registration number?
- Finances and fundraising
- Managing people
- Do we need to do background checks before we take someone on?
- How do we know if our workers are employees, contractors or volunteers?
- A volunteer complained about a suggestive comment made on her Facebook page by another volunteer. Is that sexual harassment?
- Can men be sexually harassed or just women?
- Does behaviour need to be repeated to be sexual harassment?
- Does sexual harassment cover incidents between volunteers, or between volunteers and staff, outside of the organisation’s premises?
- Is an organisation responsible if a volunteer sexually harasses a client or another member of staff?
- To avoid complaints of sexual harassment is it better to say that workplace romances aren’t allowed?
- What about where someone wears provocative or revealing clothing – aren’t they sexually harassing other staff or volunteers?
- Managing volunteers
- Our board members are volunteers – are they responsible for health and safety?
- Do we have to screen volunteers before we take them on?
- What happens if one of our volunteers makes a complaint to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission?
- What sort of reasonable adjustments do we have to make for a volunteer with a disability?
- Could our organisation be liable for discrimination if we refuse an applicant for a voluntary role because we think they can’t perform the tasks associated with the role?
- How could the discrimination provisions in the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 apply to our volunteers?
- Our insurance will only cover volunteers up to the age of 70. Are we liable for discrimination if we don’t take on volunteers over 70?
- Are we liable for the actions of ‘spontaneous volunteers’, for example, people who turn up to an event and just start helping out?
- How do we ‘manage out’ a volunteer who is no longer able to perform their role without discriminating against them?
- Is it discrimination not to take on a volunteer with a criminal record?
- What if one of our volunteers discriminates against one of our service users?
- What if one of our volunteers is racially abusive?
- What kinds of questions can we ask volunteers as part of the selection process?
- Keeping your workers safe
- Are independent contractors covered by our WorkCover insurance?
- Are we eligible to receive assistance through the WorkSafe Small Business Assistance Program?
- Could we be visited by a WorkSafe Inspector?
- Do we need to consult with workers about health and safety?
- Do we need to report workplace incidents, injuries or deaths?
- Do we need to take out WorkSafe Insurance?
- How do I control common hazards in my workplace?
- How do I prepare for a WorkSafe inspection?
- How do I report a workplace incident?
- How do we arrange WorkSafe insurance?
- How do we pay our WorkSafe Insurance Premium?
- Should we have Health and Safety Representatives?
- What are our Return to Work obligations?
- What are the health and safety obligations of our employees?
- What happens during a WorkSafe inspection?
- What health and safety obligations do we have to our employees?
- What health and safety obligations do we have to people other than employees or volunteers?
- What health and safety obligations do we have to volunteers?
- What should we do if a worker is injured?
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