Jury Duty pay

Mimi

I need a quick response if you can please - what is your company's policy regarding jury pay to employees who are paid their while serving on a jury - do you require they turn over their jury pay to the company? thanks for a quick mini-survey.

System

I don't know how soon you need the results, but I'll use your question on this week's HRhero.com poll to see if that helps.

To answer the poll or see the latest results, click the Home button on the menu at left.

Also see the Q&A about jury duty and exempt employees at
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/q&a/q&a.shtml[/url]

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

susan macias

We pay employees for jury duty for up to four weeks at their regular hourly rate. They then are required to turn over their court-paid fees to the hospital.

knesbitt

We allow the employee to keep the fees to cover the cost of lunch, parking, etc. It's so minimal, it's not worth the effort to collect and doesn't make the employer seem like a money monger.

Gar

I'm in County government. We pay our people for jury duty and let them keep what they earn as jurors. The amount is so small it isn't worth going after. Besides, it's sort of a reward for good citizenship.

Terri

We decided to save ourselves a little money by finding out what daily stipend the courts paid for jury duty. We deduct this amount from their regular paycheck. We save on FICA taxes and they keep their jury duty check.

System

Mimi,

Here are the final results of the jury duty poll. More results keep coming in, but it's time to put up a new poll.

"Do you require that employees turn over their jury duty pay to your company?"

Yes: 84 votes
No: 138 votes

Hope this helped! Our company policy is to deduct the amount of jury duty pay from our paycheck. I'll post our policy at the web address below in case anyone is interested.
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/policies/policyindex.shtml[/url]

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]