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Yes. By law, employers must pay employees who are undertaking jury service. You are considered to be employed or apprenticed during any time when you are absent from your job in order to comply with a jury summons. Note: Your employer is only obliged to pay you for the time you attended at court for jury service.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: All civil and criminal (grand and petit) jury selections and jury trials scheduled to commence before any district or magistrate judge in the District of Puerto Rico are CONTINUED. There will be no jury trials during March or April, 2020 pending further Order of the Court.
Is jury duty mandatory? Yes. The United States Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by jury in both criminal and civil cases. Your participation as a juror helps make that possible.
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.
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.
You are legally obliged to attend unless you have a good excuse and you'll need proof too such as a note from your doctor. If you cannot do the dates that you have been called for then you can ask for a different date but rarely can you get out of doing jury service altogether.
Jury service enables each and every one of us to provide access to justice for all. Trial by jury is one of the fundamental ideals of American democracy; serving as jurors reminds us that these ideals exist only as long as individual citizens are willing to uphold them.