Within a two-year span, 46 VA employees on admin. leave were paid for an entire year not to work.

[marigolds6]

Originally Posted by greywar

Wonder if thats a part of it actually. Not being willing to take a employee back, but not able to prove anything?

That is mentioned in the article as being a factor for DHS:
"In justifying the length of the leave, DHS said many individuals could not be reassigned because of the seriousness of the allegations against them -- and there was insufficient evidence to actually terminate them."

I think it is interesting that Grassley directly stated that some of these suspended people were whistleblowers being punished. You cannot fire them, because they are whistleblowers, but no one wants to work with them, because they are whistleblowers.
So you put them on administrative leave to force them to stay at home and embarrass them.

The money is the part of this that will get the most attention, but really the bigger issue here is the abuses of due process that are being facilitated by the paid leave policy.

[TrapperJohn]

There are thousands of government employees who get paid for not working....

[LetsRock]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

For the teachers job first get hired, attain tenure. Make some provocative sexual comments to some students. Done deal.

.... or get hired as a professor at a college and teach one class per semester. Get a bunch of TA's actually show up and teach while you go on a sabatical to "find yourself".