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B-156287 1 (1987-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmyb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RThe Comptroller General of the United States EI7~)5Washington, D.C. 20548 IDecision Matterof- Department of Housing and Urban Development Employee - Administrative Leave File: B-1 56287 Date: December 11, 1987 DIGEST This Office would not object to Department of Housing and Urban Development exercising administrative discre- tion in authorizing short periods of administrative leave for employee to participate in research project at Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Although it is generally not within the discretion of an agency to grant administrative leave for a lengthy period of time, each agency has the responsibility for determin- ing situations in which administrative leave will be granted for brief absences. DECISION The Director, Personnel Systems and Payroll Division, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), requests our opinion on whether an employee of HUD may be granted administrative leave by the agency to participate approximately 3 days a month in a cancer research effort being conducted by the National Cancer Institute of the Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health (NIH). We find that the granting of brief periods of administrative leave each month to this Federal employee is consistent with the available guidance for granting administrative leave to employees. Dr. Peter A. Thompson, the employee's attending physician with the National Cancer Institute, reports that the employee is engaged in a scientific protocol being run by the National Cancer Institute to investigate breast cancer in men. This is a very rare clinical entity and the employee's consent to participate in this study is, according to Dr. Thompson, a great service to the scien- tific community in general and to other patients with male breast cancer specifically. As a result, on behalf of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Thompson concludes that the brief periods of time each month spent by the employee in C _L sa\

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