RE: A way out of jury duty?

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My company, CrossCheck, Inc., policy is to pay the employee their full pay
for the day(s).  The only catch is you have to give the company the pay you
receive from the courts.  Boy I hated trading that $7.50 check, (half day),
for the 200+ dollars I am normally am paid.

Christopher K. Bipes    Mailto:chrisb@cross-check.com
CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com


-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 6:49 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: 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.
_______________________
Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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