Macon-Bibb commissioners discuss employee administrative leave

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb commissioners are looking to help county employees if they ever need to take time off from their job.

This stems from last month’s fire where a Macon-Bib firefighter died in the line of duty. Other first responders who were injured either physically or mentally, had to use their own sick days if they needed time off after the incident.

Commissioner Larry Schlesinger says each department head should be able to grant paid administrative leave, so employees don’t have to deal with the burden of losing out on money.

“We amended it to say that any department head with the mayor’s approval could grant administrative leave to somebody who was either hurt on the job or has some sort of extenuated family circumstances,” Schlesinger said.

He adds prior to consolidation, the fire chief could grant the leave, but the language wasn’t consistent when the two government’s merged.