Re: A way out of jury duty?

I would think that questions as to an employer's policies would be a 
reasonable question to ask in an employment interview.  The court room 
probably is, after all, in the employer's jurisdiction; the employer has 
civic obligations too. 

In every situation I have been in, the deal was: do the jury duty; the 
company will make you whole on your pay.  It is not a big expense to a 
company since so few actually end up serving on jury duty, and it is a 
clear statement to the community and to the employees of where the 
company's values lie.

So far as that goes, since it has come up here as a topic, why don't we 
all ask our employers to make their policies align with the mores of the 
community?  Why not ask them to consider making employee's pay whole when 
they get called to jury duty?  Good companies will gladly agree, imho.
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Booth Martin
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nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
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01/01/2000 08:22 PM
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> > First is Jury Duty.  I keep getting called for it.  But my employer
> > doesn't pay for it.  I really wish I could though.
> 
> Are you saying there is an easy way out of jury duty?  The only reaons I
> don't register to vote is so that I won't get called for jury duty.  I
> couldn't stand it.  I'm just that way.

aw, it's not that bad.  i had to do it several years ago, and since we
do contract programming, i didn't get paid for it either.  oh yes i did,
$12 dollars a day!

i was hoping to get out, but they don't do that in the county i live
in.  you can postpone it, but not cancel it unless you're not of sound
mind, etc.  when it was over, i found that it was really an interesting
experience. 

and btw, the selection was by driver's license records, not voter
registrations.

nj
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