work and jury duty

tanith

My husband as I said before did a trial of many weeks and to be honest with the travelling of an more than an hour each way, many hours concentrating on a complicated trial he was exhausted by the end of the first week.. so I can quite see why the OP wouldn't want to work weekends as well as attend jury service.. depending on the type and length of trial it can be emotionally exhausting as well as physically tiring, I would find the mere fact of serving on a jury extremely stressful, I'm sure many people find the experience difficult to say the least, thank goodness I've never been called .

xxshopaholicxx

Im on jury service now and usually i work 5 days a week..mon-sat with one of them days off plus sunday off so cos im on jury service I have the sat and sun as my day off....was supposed to be on this for 10 days give or take and then 2 weeks off work on annual leave and got it in my head I wouldnt be in work now til July but the case I was on ended today so I havent gotta go in tomorrow now..ive gotta call tomorrow evening to see if im needed on Thursday...Boo id rather be on jury service than work lol:rotfl:

Ps if your on a trial they often dont like you going in to work in between as you could talk to people about the case and they may ask questions or influence you etc plus they want your full attention to the trial not work!!I woudnt wanna go on jury service all week and then have to work on sat and sun too...ive been more tired from jury service than work lol

xxshopaholicxx

Reading through the other posts and cant believe how funny people are being with the op...sorry but not all of us want our whole 7 day week taken up with things that are beyond our control...most of us have lives to live and families/friends to spend time with doing enjoyable things and if you think 7 days "work" is fine you obviously dont lol

xxshopaholicxx

jobbingmusician wrote: »

One thing which people on here haven't pointed out, is that employers have to provide time off for jury service for workers who work Mon-Fri. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS TIME.

The OP is lucky that she will not lose any paid work during the time of her jury duty.

If your employer doesnt pay the courts do ..loss of earnings and travel/food expenses so not a problem

scheming_gypsy

xxshopaholicxx wrote: »

Reading through the other posts and cant believe how funny people are being with the op...sorry but not all of us want our whole 7 day week taken up with things that are beyond our control...most of us have lives to live and families/friends to spend time with doing enjoyable things and if you think 7 days "work" is fine you obviously dont lol

it's not having the whole 7 days taken up, it's having it taken up once. I'm sure i'm not the only one who's worked a week, done overtime at the weekend and then worked the following week.
It's a tiny inconvenience she's going to have to suffer once.

mountainofdebt

xxshopaholicxx wrote: »

if your on a trial they often dont like you going in to work in between as you could talk to people about the case and they may ask questions or influence you etc plus they want your full attention to the trial not work!!I woudnt wanna go on jury service all week and then have to work on sat and sun too...ive been more tired from jury service than work lol

I think you'll find that if you're not required then most companies would expect you to go in. As for being asked questions all people would need to do is to be told is that you couldn't discusss the case...

xxshopaholicxx wrote: »

If your employer doesnt pay the courts do ..loss of earnings and travel/food expenses so not a problem

They will only pay up to £65 per day so if you earn more than this and your employer won't make the difference then yes it could be a problem. Also there are rules to travel to be adhered to. As for susbsistance, they give you a card to use in the court canteen unless the court doesn't have one and then expenses can be claimed back.

xxshopaholicxx wrote: »

Reading through the other posts and cant believe how funny people are being with the op...sorry but not all of us want our whole 7 day week taken up with things that are beyond our control...most of us have lives to live and families/friends to spend time with doing enjoyable things and if you think 7 days "work" is fine you obviously dont lol

Some times !!!! happens and we have to suck it. This isn't for ever - and yes when needs have dictated it I have worked every day during the week.

xxshopaholicxx

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

it's not having the whole 7 days taken up, it's having it taken up once. I'm sure i'm not the only one who's worked a week, done overtime at the weekend and then worked the following week.
It's a tiny inconvenience she's going to have to suffer once.

She doesnt need to suffer..if youre doing jury service this goes instead of your job for this time...Theres people on cases for months at a time..obviously you wouldnt be expected not to have a break..

xxshopaholicxx

mountainofdebt wrote: »

I think you'll find that if you're not required then most companies would expect you to go in. As for being asked questions all people would need to do is to be told is that you couldn't discusss the case...



They will only pay up to £65 per day so if you earn more than this and your employer won't make the difference then yes it could be a problem. Also there are rules to travel to be adhered to. As for susbsistance, they give you a card to use in the court canteen unless the court doesn't have one and then expenses can be claimed back.





Some times !!!! happens and we have to suck it. This isn't for ever - and yes when needs have dictated it I have worked every day during the week.

I know whats expected cos I had to find out all the details for myself cos like I say I work full time and am on jury service now so I know all about whats expected from reading the forms sent to me,online stuff and now have the experience of being there and hearing it from the horses mouths so to speak...otherwise I wouldnt have commented cos I wouldnt have known the details!

geeez and if people want to work every day of the week then fine but dont be funny with other people cos they dont want to like I said theres alot more to life than work....I think all this work and no play is making people tetchy!!:rotfl:

mountainofdebt

xxshopaholicxx wrote: »

She doesnt need to suffer..if youre doing jury service this goes instead of your job for this time...Theres people on cases for months at a time..obviously you wouldnt be expected not to have a break..

And similarly she might be sat in the waiting room for a fortnight doing nothing.

Personally I think it boils down to a person's work ethic as to whether they think the OP should be expected to go in or not.

xxshopaholicxx

mountainofdebt wrote: »

And similarly she might be sat in the waiting room for a fortnight doing nothing.

Personally I think it boils down to a person's work ethic as to whether they think the OP should be expected to go in or not.

Yes you may and you may not and even if she is thats not down to choice is it..she will still have to be there at a certain time and maybe there all day..

This was the 1st time ive done it and from what people had said I went loaded with magazines and a book expecting to be bored to death but since the 1st day I started I was on a case and last week by the time it came to Fri I needed my weekend off to relax and recharge....Im going in to work tomorrow cos the court doesnt need me then but have still got to call in tomorrow night to see if im needed on Thur so am still taking Sat as my day off for the week incase...

Everyone there seems to have been on a case so most people will get on at least one...

Not going to argue but I dont think anyone should be expected on jury service 5 days and in work for 2 ie working a full week and like I said if you feel happy doing that fine but dont make other people feel bad for not wanting to!:cool: