Inquiry calls for paid time off for volunteer work

A six-month inquiry into the barriers that prevent young people from carrying out volunteer work has now concluded and recommends that employers should give employees paid time off to do so.

The Morgan Inquiry, which ran from early 2008 and finished at the beginning of this month, recommends the introduction of a new scheme that would encourage employers and academic institutions to grant an extra day off each year for volunteering, but not as part of proposals to introduce an additional ban... (395 more words)

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