Our corporate legal department has developed a policy that would not allow us to have vendors come in to do Auxiliary Fundraising Sales because of the possible legal issues with labor unions. This would have a huge impact on our fundraising. They have given the following suggestions for continuing these sales:
1. Run them through the gift shop where only the gift shop is working with the vendor; the vendor merely brokers the contract. The gift Shop/Auxiliary would be responsible for pick-up of the product, set up, collection of money and inventory/drop off of the product to the vendor after the sale.
2. Auxiliary could run the sales themselves as described above but without the gift shop. The vendor is not to be seen or heard from by employees.
If you have Auxiliary Sales with vendors such as Masquerade, Dillards, etc. you know how difficult this would be and I'm not sure the vendors would even want this. Have any of you dealt with this issue and if so, how was is resolved?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
