I would not tell him to leave if it didn't mean he would still get full pay for the day. You can still get paid and not be at work for some jobs. But like I said it depends where he works and what his boss is like. I figured he had a decent desk job from what he said in the first post. Sure you won't be able to just take off and still get paid when you work at a supermarket or McDonalds. But I assumed from the first post that he didn't.