13May/19

NYPD employee gives kidney to stranger, finds no paid leave policy for living organ donors working for city – New York Daily News

NYPD employee gives kidney to stranger, finds no paid leave policy for living organ donors working for city  New York Daily News

An NYPD employee lost over 200 pounds so he could be healthy enough to give his kidney to a stranger. That was the easy part. When 29-year-old Stefan Trotman of Brooklyn learned his surgery date last month, his situation confounded human relations and payroll employees, who said he would have to use his personal time — a combined 30 days of vacation, sick leave and comp time — to recover. A tech in the police department’s Information Technology Bureau since July 2017, he said he would not be deterred from saving a Tennessee man’s life. “The whole work situation is actually more complicated …