Recently I was talking to a small-business owner and friend when the topic of volunteer time off, or VTO, came up. My friend, who runs a small auto repair shop, is admittedly a self-sufficient, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of guy. He didn’t understand why a local government was considering a policy to give employees a few paid days off every year to work for a charitable cause.
Presumably, his complaint about such a program is tied to the idea that these days off would be covered by taxpayers and the public would have no say which charity its
