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As someone who's been a volunteer coordinator for an organization using ~550 volunteers a year, yes, you can fire a volunteer.

Yes, of course you can. Why couldn't you?

> You can't fire a volunteer.

Its actually easier to file a volunteer, since, compared to a paid employee, they are less likely to have any claim against you if you do and they aren't happy with it.

Of course, it can be hard to get a better replacement for the same money for an incompetent volunteer in a skilled field, but that's an issue of difficulty replacing the volunteer, not difficulting firing them.