UW-System President Kevin Reilly has reprimanded UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley for approving months of paid, sick leave for administrator Paul Barrows, even though Barrows was not sick.
“You and your administrative team should have been aware of the requirement that an employee must be ill in order to charge an absence to sick leave, and should have acted promptly either to obtain the appropriate documentation on Dr. Barrows’ situation, or to require his return to work,” Reilly wrote to Chancellor Wiley. “The failure to do so has hurt the University’s reputation.”