Montana Sample Letter for Employer Requesting Employee's Jury Duty Release
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If you're aged 65 or over, permanently disabled or have a chronic illness, you can request to be permanently excused when you respond to your jury summons. The court will send you a letter of permanent excusal.
Montana has a list of specific excuses that can be used to be exempt from reporting for jury duty, including excuses for military, elected official, student, age, police, medical worker and firefighter. You can also be excused if you don't meet the basic eligibility requirements for jury duty in MT.
No. While courts can pay travel costs, subsistence allowances and allowances for loss of earnings and other financial loss to individuals who attend jury service, no payment is made to third parties such as employers.
When writing your or your employee's jury duty excuse letter, you must include basic information like the juror number, date, and your mailing address. You also need to include the clerk's information. Include detailed information about why you or your employee needs to be excused from serving jury duty.
Employers must allow an employee time off for jury service, although employees can ask for a delay if it will harm the business, but can only delay once in a 12-month period. Jury service in most cases is an average of ten working days but may be longer or shorter depending on the case.
18 years of age or older. A resident for at least 30 days of the state and of the city, town, or county in which summoned. Have not been convicted of malfeasance in office or any felony or other high crime.
Will I be paid for jury service? Current Montana law sets the compensation level for jurors at $12 plus $0.555 for mileage. If you are selected to hear the case you will be paid an additional $13.
You Can Be Penalized for Non-Attendance If you receive a jury summon in the mail, ignoring it won't make it go away. According to Montana law, If you fail to appear or appear but refuse to serve, it can result in one or all of the following: Up to a $1,000 fine. Imprisonment for up to 3 days.
