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A seasonal job is a short-term position designed to fill a temporary need, usually related to the time of year. The summer jobs popularly held by students fit into this category, as do temporary positions — usually in retail and delivery — that open up in many markets around the winter holidays. Short-term construction and house painting jobs, work related to crops and agriculture, and many tourism positions may also follow seasonal schedules.

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An employment situation where an employee is expected to remain in a position only for a certain period of time. Temporary employees may have the opportunity to achieve permanent employment status after the time period has lapsed, Temporary workers may also be referred to as seasonal employees or temps. Employment term may be based on the completion of a project, the availability of funding, or other circumstances.

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1. A fixed-term contract of employment is defined as a contract of employment which: has a definite start and end date, or. terminates automatically when a particular task is completed, or. terminates after a specific event (other than retirement or summary dismissal).

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An employee who has been hired for a position without a pre-determined time limit. A permanent employee differs from a term or temporary employee, both of which have a pre-determined period of employment.

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'Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits'

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Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits: How Giving to Others Makes You Healthier and Happier

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Volunteering can help you make friends, learn new skills, advance your career, and even stay healthy. Learn how to find the right fit.

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'How volunteering saved my life'

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If I had never joined the Scouts I'm near certain I'd be dead. Scouting, and volunteering in general, gave me a reason to keep going during my troublesome teenage years.

Scouts gave me an escape and a family when my mother was imprisoned for benefit fraud and my siblings were scattered by social services. And volunteering helped immensely during sixth form when I ended up living independently.

During my teenage years, there were times when I struggled and there were moments where I lagged behind in education. Scouting showed me that I could have an impact on the world - even if it was just giving kids something to do. Volunteering gave me what I needed to continue.

Within two years of joining, aged 16 and living by myself, I had raised £1,500 to travel to rural Gambia to build accommodation for teachers. I spent a month there sleeping in tents by the village, engulfed by the sights, sounds and smells of Africa. Two months later, I was camping out in -30C Russia, also as a volunteer.

Why do I think that volunteering is such a good thing to do? I believe that volunteering is worthwhile, no matter what your background is.

Jon Robinson, 22, is a medicine student at Keele University - and believes his voluntary work got him his place there. Jon has helped on wards at a local hospital, been publicity officer for both the University of Birmingham and National Nightline Association, and has set up the Keele branch of Mental Wealth.

He says: "I really think that everyone should have a go at voluntary work at some point, especially while you're at uni. Friends of mine who have gone into the real world find it much more difficult."

My volunteering has led to some amazing experiences. Firstly, a few weeks before starting university I was nominated by my Scout group for the Cambridgeshire young people of the year awards.

To my amazement, I won and accepted first place in front of hundreds of VIPs, friends and politicians. I've never done volunteering for rewards but this helped to show that what I was doing was worth it and that it really did make an impact on the world.

Another fantastic experience was when we went to a local town in Gambia. Towards the end of the expedition our group stayed in Kaira Konko, a scout centre in the local town of Soma. One of the leaders decided to abandon me, leaving me with around 80 kids, most of whom spoke limited or no English, to entertain.

Before long, with the help of an older child to translate and some very bad sign language from myself, I had them playing scout games and activities.

I still volunteer now, for the past year I've been part of Team v, a nationwide leadership program run by vInspired, and I continue to engage within the societies at my university campus and I am still a Scout.

I'd recommend volunteering to anyone. It not only enhances your CV, something which is becoming more important, but it gives you opportunities and skills that are otherwise inaccessible.

A report by the Scouts states that 91% of volunteers felt that Scouting has helped them develop key skills and a third felt that they had the ability to access opportunities that are either difficult or impossible to obtain otherwise.

Without volunteering I wouldn't be at university, I wouldn't have the confidence I do now, or be writing this article. Ultimately though, without volunteering I doubt I'd be here at all.
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If I had never joined the Scouts I'm near certain I'd be dead. Scouting, and volunteering in general, gave me a reason to keep going during my troublesome teenage years. Scouts gave me an escape and a family when my mother was imprisoned for benefit fraud and my siblings were scattered by social services.

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Sport is a great way of getting people active and involved. Large numbers of people give their time to run local sports clubs, coach young people and organise sporting events across the country. Those giving their time to sports organisations are not always recognised as being 'volunteers' and so don't always know how to access the range of advice and support available for volunteer co-ordinators and volunteer-involving organisations.

Volunteering England's Good Practice bank provides a range of information relevant to sports organisations, while advice on volunteering in particular sports is available from the sports national governing bodies.

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Some volunteers are under the age of 18. Loda Sports also employs children from 14 years of age in the cafe, especially at weekends but sometimes during the week whenthey are busy.

(b) Outline two ways in which Loda Sports can ensure that these children will be adequately protected whilst at work.

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To promote itself and increase membership, Loda Sports has decided to put on a series of activities for young children and teenagers during the school holidays in August. The company is advertising for extra staff for this project. Some of them will be volunteers.

(a) (i) Explain why people may volunteer to work in the leisure industry.

(ii) Evaluate the decision by Loda Sports to use some volunteers for this project.

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1) Explain what is meant by voluntary work

2) Explain why Oxfam might prefer to have volunteers?

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Disadvantages to the employee and employer

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Disadvantages to the employee and employer

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- Time commitment

- Lack of pay

- Personality conflicts

- Impact on health

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Advantages to the employee and employer 

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- Learn or develop a new skill

- Be part of your community

- Motivation and sense of achievement

- Boost your career options

- New interests and hobbies

- New experiences

- Meeting a diverse range of people

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The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme | UNV

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Ana Belén Harb (left), national UN Volunteer Programme Assistant with UNICEF Ecuador, and Rocío Zambrano, Local Assistant, discuss activities carried out for children as part of the recovery efforts after the earthquake of April 2016 in Ecuador. (Juan Diego Pérez Arias/UNV, 2016)

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'Voluntary work has merit, but is no substitute for a paid job'

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In one respect this Government is following the last: in drip-feeding to the media some of its more controversial proposals before presenting them formally to Parliament. Yesterday's disclosure that this week's White Paper on welfare reform will include a requirement for the long-term unemployed to do some unpaid work was a classic of the kind - and what a predictable furore it unleashed.

On the one side were those people - most of them employed - who hailed the move unhesitatingly as a very good thing: people on jobless benefits, they argued, should not just sit there; they, and society, stood to benefit if they bestirred themselves. On the other side were those, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, who feared that compulsory work could drive already vulnerable people deeper into despair. There was also widespread cynicism about "make-work" schemes and worries about exploitation.

Ministers speaking yesterday sounded less absolutist. Iain Duncan Smith, whose plans for a universal credit will be at the centre of the White Paper on Thursday, said the idea was to "pull people in to do one or two weeks' manual work ... to give people a sense of work, but also when we think they're doing other work". William Hague told the BBC that the point was to give people "who have not been used to working having both the opportunity and perhaps a bit more of a push as well, to experience the workplace from time to time". The vast majority of people in Britain, he said, would think that the right thing to do.

That may well be so. It is surely not unreasonable to expect those who are able-bodied but have long been - for whatever reason - without a job, to contribute a portion of their time to the general good. The difficulties are less to do with the underlying principle than with the practice, which risks throwing up all sorts of potential anomalies and contradictions.

The vast majority of those currently receiving jobseeker's allowance are doing so for the simple reason that they cannot find a job - and their number is only likely to grow, perhaps massively, as spending cuts hit local councils and other parts of the public sector. The danger could be that paid jobs will be cut, only to reappear as unpaid jobs in the voluntary sector. It is not hard to imagine the absurd situation where a local council employee is laid off, only to be displaced by a benefit recipient putting in his or her voluntary hours. Which poses the further question of basic justice: whether a job should not be rewarded, at very least, at the rate of the minimum wage.

It should be acknowledged that some unemployed people already do voluntary work, mostly for charities. But even if there is work to be done that is not at present being done because no one is prepared to pay for it, any scheme needs to be properly organised. Nothing is so discouraging, and so likely to put people off the whole idea, than work that has no obviously useful aim. Yet devising and managing useful schemes can cost as much money as is saved. If anyone thinks that new work - even unpaid work - comes cheap, that is a mistake.

On balance, there are probably more pluses than minuses to asking those who have received benefits for a long time to give something in return. The contrast, repeatedly drawn by David Cameron, Mr Duncan Smith and others, between those who leave for work at the crack of dawn and those who are still asleep, courtesy of the taxpayer, behind the drawn curtains across the street has struck a chord. But it has to be recognised that if it were so simple to put jobless people to work, either as a nod towards social justice or as preparation for a real, paid, job, it would have been done long ago.

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In one respect this Government is following the last: in drip-feeding to the media some of its more controversial proposals before presenting them formally to Parliament. Yesterday's disclosure that this week's White Paper on welfare reform will include a requirement for the long-term unemployed to do some unpaid work was a classic of the kind - and what a predictable furore it unleashed.

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Event organising, fundraising, marketing, campaigning, public speaking

Many organisations again rely on volunteers to support their work by undertaking a range of activities to promote their organisation and its work, to the wider community. Some but not all give training to help volunteers develop these skills but many welcome volunteer contributions to support the work of those who already have them.

Artistic, creative, reading, music and dance

Volunteering and the Arts

For many organisations in the arts sector, volunteering is central to them being able to run effectively, with often limited resources.

There are many reasons for recruiting volunteers and many different roles available. Volunteers can help with the management and running of the organisation, assisting with events and activities, administration, and fund-raising. If you already have creative skills you could help run arts workshops for young and disadvantaged people.

You may not be creative but if you have an interest in the arts you could help run local theatres, music or dance schools and groups. This could involve running a box office, ushering, working in the bar, making costumes and helping backstage.

Sport

From small amateur sports clubs to major sports governing bodies, there are many opportunities for volunteering in sport. The 2012 Olympics as well as the Government drive to increase activity levels among schoolchildren and adults, is creating increased demand for volunteers. The 2012 Olympics as well as the Government drive to increase activity levels among schoolchildren and adults, is creating increased demand for volunteers.

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People may decide to volunteer during seasonal holidays, for example Whipsnade Zoo. This is because more people go to the zoo during school holidays. This means that the Zoo is in high demand and they need more employees to ensure that their customers are safe.

Volunteers also can choose which hours they would want to work, because they are not getting paid for it. However, once they make the committed they have to turn up.

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A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily: an information booth staffed by volunteers; hospital volunteers.