What are the policies at your job regarding jury duty? And do you work for a large or small company?

My office is small, 7 people, with only one or two typically who are on salary (the others are on commission only). If a staffer gets called to jury duty, the company continues to pay the salary while that person serves. It's never happened that the jury duty was more than one or two days, but I'm told that even if a staffer were impaneled for a few weeks, they'd pay the person anyway and either work around her absence or get a temp.

My husband works in a deli, and just served two days of jury duty for which he was granted...the opportunity to make them up on what should have been his regular days off! I'm ticked because one of these days is TOMORROW, the Saturday of a holiday weekend (and Sunday is a regular workday for him anyway). ARGH!!

Am I wrong to be ticked? Normally, if he hadn't had jury duty and was asked to work on a Saturday, he'd be able to decline or get paid overtime if he said yes. But because he had jury duty this week he not only has no choice in the matter, but he doesn't get the overtime pay!

It seems to me that employers should permit their employees to fulfill their civic duty without hardship. Hell, it's only once in a blue moon in a small business. Am I wrong? I guess if this were any other week it wouldn't bother me so much, but it really rankles on Memorial Day weekend.

How does it work where YOU work?

Our company policy is to pay employees for 8 hours a day when serving on jury duty. We would not pay overtime if the actually worked under 40 hours. For example if they worked 36 hours but were off 2 days (16 hours) for jury duty they would get paid for 46 hours at their regular rate not 6 hours of overtime. No federal law requires an employer to pay a non-exempt employee for jury duty. I don't know about your state laws. When an employer pays an employee for jury duty is is a benefit of working for that company. I think most companies pay their employees their regular rate of pay for jury duty. Some companies deduct the amount the employee receives for the jury duty.

Your husbands Personnel Policy manual should outline their policy on jury duty.