How does the federal Volunteer Protection Act relate to a state law claim for unpaid wages? The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has had the opportunity to spell out the relationship in a recent case involving claims by employees of a dissolved community health center against the volunteer chair of the board. The case arose when the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center (“RoxComp”) shut down without paying its employees for the last several weeks of employment. The employees sued under the state Wage Act, which provides that the officers, including the president, can be personally liable for the failure to pay. The defendants sued by the employees included Keith Crawford, the...