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Jury Duty & Social Welfare

  • 06-04-2011 1:29pm
    #1
    Zatoichi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭


    I'm starting Jury Service next week, but since I work for an agency, and it's shift work, I am going to essentially miss a week and a half's wage.

    I know that your employer is supposed to pay you for the time you are on the Jury, but I don't think this applies to casual work with an agency. Besides, I work shifts, and once I miss the shift I can't turn up a few hours later. So I'm missing the entire day.

    Is there anything from Social Welfare I can avail of for this week and a half I'll be job-less?


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  • #2
    Heart Break Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Heart Break Kid


    Just ask to be made exempt. Have suffered jury duty and it is fairly easy to get off it if you have a solid straight forward excuse.


  • #3
    Zatoichi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Zatoichi


    Heart Break Kid wrote: »
    Just ask to be made exempt. Have suffered jury duty and it is fairly easy to get off it if you have a solid straight forward excuse.

    Too late for that, I'm afraid. I'm on the jury.


  • #4
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    No there's no payment from social welfare.
    From citizen's information:

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    There is no payment for jury service. Travelling expenses are not allowed. If you are actually serving as a juror, lunch will be provided on the day or days that the trial is at hearing.

    If you are self-employed and work alone and where your attendance at jury service may mean you cannot earn a living, you may qualify for excusal from jury service. Contact the jury office of the Court for more information.

    If you are in employment, the Juries Act 1976 (Section 29) places a duty on your employer to allow you attend for jury service. It is further specified in the law that time spent on jury service is to be treated as if the employee were actually employed. In other words, if you are in employment and are attending for jury service, you are entitled to be paid while you are away from work. Anyone with a contract of employment (i.e., temporary workers, contract workers, etc.) is entitled to be paid by their employer while they are on jury service. There should also be no loss of any other employment rights while you serve on a jury. The Jury office will provide a certificate of attendance on request.


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