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B-201099 1 (1981-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjym0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE° U.L--5uT ' GNERAL DE~CISION 11% F THU UNITINO UTATEU WASHINQTON, P.C, .0548 1 Tt0 FILE; B-201099 DATE; December 22, 1981 MATTER OF: Use of Sick Leave for Treatmpnt by Marriage/ Family Counselor DIGEST; Employee requested sick leave for period of emotional gtress and request was certified by licensed marriage/family counselor, .Since such counselor is consioered practitioner who may certify for use of sick leave, agency may accept certification as evidence of reason for absence, The isste in this decision is whether a14 employee may properly charge sick leave during a period ofQemotional stress while nhe was under the care of a l1ceiused marriage! family counselor. We hold that since lictnsed marriage/ family counselors are considered to be rractitioners cap- able of certifying the employee's inc'ezcitation to work, we have no objection to the agency granting the use of sick leave based upon this evidence. This decision is in response to a request from an author- izqd certifying officer, reference W1819 (WR)AF, National Park Sorvice, Western Region, Department df the Interior. The request from Interior states that an employee requested sick leave for the period from April 14 through April 22, 1980, due to emotional stress in her personal life, The employee's application for leave was signed by a licensed marriage/family counselor certifying that the employee was under his professional care during that period. The agency questions whether a marriage counselor qualifies as a practitioner for the purpose of certifying sick leave. The agency obtained an advisory opinion from the Office of Perconnel Management (OPM) that a marriage counselor, licensed by the state, in legeily defined as a practitioner for the purpose of certifying sick leave.In addition, under Interior regulations a troubled employee whose work performance or behavior is adversely affected by personal problems such as alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental health or family problems, may have sick, annual, or leave without pay approved for treatment of those problems.

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