[nylug-talk] Job Recruiters

[Ron Guerin]

Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:43:20PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:

>> As for taking money from recruiters... if you ask me, that's setting
>> yourself up for all kinds of trouble, moreso for you I'd think since it
>> would complicate your not-for-profit status.
>> 
> Its completely within the rights of the organization which has a labor resource
> to get money for advertizing from a recruiter.  In fact, there aren't many ways
> of getting money for a non-profit which is imoral or illegal.  There are, however,
> tons of way in which how one spends the non-profits moneys you can get into ugly
> moral issues and legal ones.
> 
> NYLXS's clear and precise charter and explicitly spelled our responsibilities and accounting 
> practices leaves us way above board.

It's not your charter that's the issue, it's the tax laws, which require
you to get most of your money from your membership.

- Ron