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For example, Colorado stipulates that workers must be paid regular wages not exceeding $50/day by their employer for every day served on a jury. By using the term 'regular wages' in the law, the state has forbidden the use of other compensation means such as vacation time or comp time as payment of wages for jury duty.
Employers are required to do so only for the first three days. After that, the state pays. I was recently summonsed for jury duty and, rather fortunately, my company offered to pay my full day's salary (which is much higher than $50) for the first three days. After that, I'd have been SOL. I mean, c'mon. $50/day is the equivalent of $6.25/hr. at 8 hours a day. What if you make $20+ an hour and you're required to be off for a few weeks? Most likely, you wouldn't be able to pay your bills.
I think in this case you'd be better off taking PTO.
Jury payment question
I recently served 10 days on a jury. I served from 2/16 to 3/2
My employer said in the past that if you receive a jury fee from the court you have to turn it over to the job
I assume this happens when you check "no" on the application question "will you receive pay from your job for serving on a jury?" the court sends you a check, but my employer pays you for jury service(they give you 3 days of regular pay considered a "jury days plus after that time you can opt to use your personal time or get paid from the jury fee)
I checked "yes" to the question and assumed i would not receive a jury fee. Just now i received a check from NY state for the $40 jury fee.
I am not sure what to do. I don't know if i am going to get more checks for the remaining 9 days
I have to call the court tomorrow and ask about what to do in the meantime i thought i'd inquire here
I'm confused as i deliberately checked "yes" to avoid the hassle of getting paid and the employer asking for the $$
You turn the check over to your company if that's company policy. You checked "yes" but that is so the Jury Commissioner gets an idea about the demographics and frequency that it happens. In MD the jury fee is deliberately called a meals and travel fee and not a juror payment so people don't have to turn it over. That is stressed in juror orientation after selection but before the trial starts.
the court and spoke to a woman there who told me my employer cannot ask me to turn over my checks to them. She said i served a lot of time and the jury fees are rightfully mine. the woman then told me she was going to call my payroll clerk and inquire about how i was paid by my employer(said she does this routinely) for jury duty but not reveal that i spoke to her so as to not get me into trouble at the job
the woman spoke to my payroll clerk and then told me i am still entitled to all the pay i am going to receive for the remaining 6 jury svce days, especially since i took personal days for the remaining days of svce after the 3 days
I still don't know what to do. my employer can find out from the court if i was paid, but i do notice my employer took out of the employee manual that an employee who gets paid from the court must turn over the jury fee to them, so maybe it no longer applies
May an employer require an employee to take vacation or other paid leave while serving?
No. It is an illegal penalty to force an employee to charge jury duty absence against vacation, personal or sick time. However, an employee may choose paid leave over losing wages. An employer who penalizes an employee for service as a juror by forcing the juror to use paid leave may be prosecuted by the Office of the Attorney General and subjected to criminal penalties.
I would check with the HR department -- rules vary. Some companies give 3 paid jury days per year. Once the CEO came right and told the employee questioning why just 3 days at a meeting that 3 was enough because most people are called for jury duty only 2 or 3 times a year and if they want to sit on a jury instead of coming to work, that is fine - they won't lose their job and can use PTO.
Around here some people get picked for jury duty a lot - and they admit they like serving on a jury. Also a lot of people stay for only 2 or 3 hours waiting to be selected or sent home but they don't show back up at work and expect to be paid 8 hours for what turned out to be a day off.
Jury payment question
I recently served 10 days on a jury. I served from 2/16 to 3/2
My employer said in the past that if you receive a jury fee from the court you have to turn it over to the job
I assume this happens when you check "no" on the application question "will you receive pay from your job for serving on a jury?" the court sends you a check, but my employer pays you for jury service(they give you 3 days of regular pay considered a "jury days plus after that time you can opt to use your personal time or get paid from the jury fee)
I checked "yes" to the question and assumed i would not receive a jury fee. Just now i received a check from NY state for the $40 jury fee.
I am not sure what to do. I don't know if i am going to get more checks for the remaining 9 days
I have to call the court tomorrow and ask about what to do in the meantime i thought i'd inquire here
I'm confused as i deliberately checked "yes" to avoid the hassle of getting paid and the employer asking for the $$
does anyone know how this works?
I found this post to be incredibly confusing.
You served 10 days on jury duty, yes?
Your company paid you your full salary for the first three days and you used the other 7 as vacation days or personal time?
If the above is correct, your employer should receive three $40. payments from you in trade for the three days they paid you in full. Of course, if you don't receive but the single $40 payment from the court, then that's all they should get.
What a crappy situation to have to use your vacation time to perform a civil service that's asked of you once every eight years now (at least in NYC). If you only get two weeks vacation a year and use half of it to fulfill your obligation to "work" as a juror that just sucks.
in ny state an employer is required by the ny state judicial law to pay at least the $40 jury fee for the first 3 days an employee is on the jury. i make about $200 per day
my employer paid me my regular salary which includes the $40 jury fee that they are required by law to pay. i don't think my employer technically has to pay me my full salary for those first 3 days, only the $40 jury fee. those first 3 days were marked as "jury" on my pay receipt
after the 3 days(the remaining 7) i used personal days of which i have quite a lot of
i didn't expect to get paid because i checked "yes" to the question of does your employer pay you for jury duty because i know you can opt to use personal days (or i assume you would have to live on the jury fee of $40 per day)
since i didn't expect to get paid, i called the court and they told me i am entitled to keep the money (should be about $280) because i used personal time and my employer cannot take it because it's rightfully mine. i got $40 so far and am supposed to get 6 more checks according to the lady in the court
i still am confused
meanwhile, i noticed that my employer took the statement of "employees have to turn over their jury fee if they receive payment from the court" out of the employee manual
perhaps my employer set this rule because since they technically don't have to pay you your full salary for the first 3 days but only $40, they consider any amount over the $40 they give you to be excess? (in my case like $160 more)
anyway like i said they took it out of the employee manual
My job pays me for jury duty so when I get dismissed early I have to turn the stipend over to my job. My problem is that I am paid to work seven hours and I work the required seven hours upon returning to work. Am I still obligated to turn over the stipend paid by the court even though I have put in my obligated seven hours.
my employer never asked me to turn over the stipend to them 2 years ago. in fact i received $280 for the 7 days served but didn't get the stipend for the first three days i served. i checked "yes" that my employer pays me and i still got the stipend. i even verified with the clerk and she said i was entitled to it and that my employer should not be asking me for any pay back. anyway my employer never asked me for it
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