A Wisconsin USPS clerk took leave to donate her kidney. Now she can’t get paid.

When Melissa Pauke, a U.S. Postal Service clerk in Marshfield, scheduled her surgery to become a kidney donor last year, her supervisor assured her that her administrative leave benefits would arrive shortly after. But nearly one year later, Pauke is still awaiting over $8,000 in pay. Pauke, 54, contacted Public Investigator in April, baffled as … Read more