Jury Duty and Nightshift

SeantheMan

Hi all,

I am scheduled to attend dury duty on a Wednesday, I don't know how long it will run for or times, as I have never attended court before.

My concern is that I am rostered to work nightshift 8pm-8am that weekend (Friday night - Monday morning)

I assume that being exempt as would be on dayshift wouldn't apply for the Friday, and what is the case with working the Sunday night and attending immediately the Monday morning ?

Thanks

Ken.

By law your employer has to give you the time off to do jury duty, however if you get a note from your employer saying they need you and it would cause problems to give you the time off then most clerks would let you off the jury duty.

SeantheMan

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SeantheMan

Yeah I understand that, but the difference is that my work would fall outside Jury duty hours no ?
I would have to do duty and immediately go to work that night, and on the case of sunday, go to work for 12 hours and immediately go to Jury duty , so I don't know if the same rules apply

anthony4335

You would be entitled to the time off. Speak to you HR department and they will clear this up for you. If they don't you can as them for that in writing and hand it in to the court.