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Jury Duty

  • 27-09-2020 6:33pm
    #1
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,482 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Got summonsed for jury duty last month (case is next week). Gave my employer a copy of the summons with the date on it.

    Conveniently my employer has given me the day Im due to attend off, so I wont get paid for it now. Im basically loosing out on a day off.

    Am I right to think that I am considered employed while in court so technically I should be paid for that day and shoudnt have been given it as a day off?


Comments

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


    “ if you are in employment, your employer must let you attend jury service. Time spent on jury service should 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. “


    Your employer has to pay you for the day.

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/courtroom/jury_service.html


  • #3
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,482 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    Heart Break Kid wrote: »
    “ if you are in employment, your employer must let you attend jury service. Time spent on jury service should 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. “


    Your employer has to pay you for the day.

    https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/courtroom/jury_service.html

    Thanks for that, another employee was told when they did it that they are only paid if picked for jury but for the first day when they went in to see if they are picked or not they were not paid.

    I'm not on the jury yet, will know when I go in but I assume I should get paid regardless as I was summonsed to jury duty?


  • #4
    esioal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭esioal


    You should be paid for any time that you’re told to attend the court for - you could end up attending for a few days in a row and not end up getting selected for any jury.
    If you’re dismissed from the courts for the day you should return to work if possible - say you get told at 11:30am you’re not needed for the rest of the day you shouldn’t just go home ;)
    Your employer can request of record of the time you were attending jury duty from the courts if they need to.

    I was called for Jury Duty for Oct (which has subsequently been cancelled), when I entered it into our HR system as Jury Duty it didn’t deduct anything extra from my annual leave days.


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