Member

Some say that this will be a burden on small businesses, but I do not accept that. Section 50 in the Act gives the right to leave for volunteering to criminal justice members, and it has a reasonableness clause. A business of three people may struggle to give any time off, whereas a business of 10,000 people may have far more flexibility. It is not reasonable for an employee to take time off consistently when the business particularly needs them or if it does not have sufficient people to backfill. But of course they get back a better trained, more confident and more rounded individual who has just a few more experiences of life, which might benefit them in their employment and society in general.