Airhart v. New Orleans Fire Department

| Judge STEVEN R. PLOTKIN.

Plaintiffs, a group of employees of the New Orleans Fire Department, appeal a decision of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission upholding the action of the appointing authority for the New Orleans Fire Department, changing their sick leave status to leave without pay for their absence from work on April 13, 1999, meaning that they were not paid for that day. We affirm.

Facts

On April 13, 1999, only 42 of 161 employees of the Department of Fire who were scheduled to report to work actually reported. The remaining employees, approximately 74 per cent of the scheduled…