Jury Service - Claiming for time off work

sariebeth

Hello, I think I'm putting this in the right place.

I have been called up to do Jury Service later this month and will be having the time off work to do this. I realise that I can claim expenses for the time I am away from work but I'm worried it's not going to cover my actual losses.

Up to and including four hours – first ten days £32.47 per day
Over four hours – first ten days £64.95 per day


In my case, although I am registered as living in Nottingham, I am actually working 200 miles away at the moment and staying there during the week. So even if I do less than 4 hours at the court per day, I can't then go into work afterwards. Therefore I will be loosing a whole days work, but only being recompensed for a part day.

I think I'm understanding this right.

Is there anything I can do about this. Or am I getting it all completely wrong? Help!

Lovelyjoolz

Yes, you are reading this right - they expect you to go back to work if you only serve at the court for a half day, and for your employer to pay you for the other half of the day.

However, you do have to submit a form which your employer fills in to say whether or not you are allowed to work for the remainder of the day, so perhaps they would try and make sure you are fully occupied at court all day if you don't have the option of going to work? Hopefully someone here will know the answer to that one. Or you could call them and ask. They also respond pretty quickly to emailed requests.

Alternatively, have you spoken to your employer to see if you could take some of the time as holiday so that you don't loose pay?

Sambucus_Nigra

Part 3 - deferral.

Fill it in and at least apply for one.

vax2002

Guy I knew was collared, he was self employed and he would have lost his only contract, they would have none of it, so he turns up first morning, and says out of the blue to the desk clerk "would it matter if I am a BNP member" ! he is not, far from it, er wait here she says.
2 mins later, thanks you can go we dont need, there has been a mistake you will get a letter will be in the post.
That was that .

sariebeth

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Part 3 - deferral.

Fill it in and at least apply for one.

I already deferred in May because I didn't pick up the letter until about 6 weeks after it arrived. So I can't defer again. But thanks for the info

sariebeth

Lovelyjoolz wrote: »

Yes, you are reading this right - they expect you to go back to work if you only serve at the court for a half day, and for your employer to pay you for the other half of the day.

However, you do have to submit a form which your employer fills in to say whether or not you are allowed to work for the remainder of the day, so perhaps they would try and make sure you are fully occupied at court all day if you don't have the option of going to work? Hopefully someone here will know the answer to that one. Or you could call them and ask. They also respond pretty quickly to emailed requests.

Alternatively, have you spoken to your employer to see if you could take some of the time as holiday so that you don't loose pay?

Yes I could ask my employer to use part of my holiday, but I already have a fair amount of holiday booked for actual holidays and I don't really want to use the remainder. But if it comes to it, then it's definitely an option.

I will give them a call and see what they say, just thought I would run it past you guys first.

I'm actually happy to do it, just didn't want to end up skint because of it

SailorSam

If you explain to the Court Clerk about working away from home she'd probably Ok a full days 'pay'. I've just been on Jury Service and not many seemed to be sent home at lunch, they waited to make sure they were going to have enough Jurors for the afternoon.

gibson123

I have served twice and have found the court clerks are very reasonable and try to work with you, i am sure if you call them up and explain the situation before jury duty they will give you an answer that supports your attendance without loss, or allow you to be excused because of distance.

LittleMissGiggles123

When I did jury service back last year my employer filled in the form to say I could NOT return to work on a half day, so the courts paid me full days even when I was there for half a day.

They were also really good & told me to ring each morning before going into the court to see if I was needed, that way I could go to work for a normal full days work if they didnt need me to be at the courts.

This was in Cardiff, i'm not sure if it's different at each court.