Employer and Jury Duty

pramsay13

jdturk wrote: »

lol hardly the employee losing out on its own, the employer loses an employee, as above might have to get cover etc etc etc

Agreed, I think that's why so many people try to get out of it.
It's a lose lose situation for everyone except the justice system.

st999

What do you do when your employee goes on holiday?

Stan

pramsay13

st999 wrote: »

What do you do when your employee goes on holiday?

Stan

holiday cover is budgeted for, as is a certain amount of sickness cover, but something extra like this isn't accounted for so we lose out.

lsaunders

I would also like to know - i have an employee of senior management that has to commence jury service. We will be paying his wage, but is there no way we, as a company, are reimbursed?

glider3560

lsaunders wrote: »

I would also like to know - i have an employee of senior management that has to commence jury service. We will be paying his wage, but is there no way we, as a company, are reimbursed?

No, you won't be reimbursed. The court will only reimburse the jurer directly - not their employer.

lsaunders

So it really is the employer that is the loser here.... we're without the employee, still have to pay but can't have the money back in anyway... doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Appreciate the advice though :-)

anamenottaken

McKneff wrote: »

It may not be that simple, there is a cap on a daily rate of earnings paid by the Jury Service. Lots of people do lose out just because of that.

If the employee earns say £90 a day and the cap is £63 the employee is down
by £27 a day, times that by 10 days its a lot of money. So its no wonder a lot of people try to get out of doing it.

Whatever the court paid, I didn't pay NI or tax on it. (Also fortunately my employer did pay the balance of my salary for the two weeks I was on jury service.)

glider3560

lsaunders wrote: »

So it really is the employer that is the loser here.... we're without the employee, still have to pay but can't have the money back in anyway... doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Appreciate the advice though :-)

I don't think the employer has to pay anything - you might want to check this out.

lsaunders

glider3560 wrote: »

I don't think the employer has to pay anything - you might want to check this out.

I meant pay the employee his/hers salary, which we have to pay.

Savvy_Sue

lsaunders wrote: »

I meant pay the employee his/hers salary, which we have to pay.

Actually, I don't think you HAVE to pay the employee's salary while they are on jury duty, although not doing so would hardly inspire loyalty from your employees.

And you certainly CAN deduct the amount that the juror can claim from the courts.