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Now don’t shoot the messenger, but here is the background on “administrative leave” what you call “suspended with pay.”

Courts in the 80s ruled that civil service employees had a property right to their jobs if they passed probation. This did not preclude government from doing lay-offs or cutbacks.

If the job is a property right, the government cannot take it away without due process. Thus personnel boards and administrative officers hold hearings and there are appeal rights.

If any employee is being investigated, they can stay at work or of they are a danger of may interfere with the investigation they are placed on administrative leave (with pay), UNTIL the investigation is done and there is action or no action.

So the disposition (suspension, pay cut, dismissal) comes after due process.

Since the investigation is PRIOR to due process you cannot take pay or a job away because the process has not played out.

Don’t rant on me. Your questions always comes up and I just wanted to explain it not defend it. As we know, public service is not private industry.