Suspended with pay?
Can I too get suspended with pay?
Be a schoolteacher...
I believe the legal rationale for “suspended with pay” is to remove the defense of a double penalty. In other words, if the employee was suspended without pay, he could argue that he has already been punished and cannot face further discipline. So to avoid that, the employer will suspend with pay and thus will be able to fire or impose a more harsh penalty after the investigation of the particular incident.
I suspect there is some language in the contract that addresses this.