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Originally Posted by Schaumburger
I have had to write several of those notes for employees in my office here in Illinois. I guess the notes worked as no one has been on jury duty in my office for more than 1 or 2 days in the past few years. And as of 3 years ago, my employer will only pay employees for five days of jury duty per calendar year. If you are on jury duty that lasts longer than 5 days, guess what -- you get to take those days unpaid, or you can use vacation time.  |
From the look of who was excused from jury service, that would probably work in the Federal court in Ocala too. There were a number of people who submitted written excuses from the jury pool and were let go. Maybe about a third of the people there left because of excuses they made. My guess is that these were hardship requests-- that serving on the jury would take them away from their jobs for too long.