Jury Duty

The Diocese of Brownsville encourages employees to fulfill their civic responsibilities by serving jury duty when required. Paid leave will be granted to permit employees to serve on a state or federal jury or to appear as a witness in a state or federal court after completing a minimum of 180 calendar days of service in an eligible classification.

Jury duty pay will be calculated on the employee’s base pay rate times the number of hours the employee would otherwise have worked on the day of absence. Employee classifications that qualify for paid jury duty leave are:

• Regular full-time employees
• Regular part-time employees

Employees must show the jury duty summons to their supervisor as soon as possible so that the supervisor may make arrangements to accommodate their absence. Of course, employees are expected to report for work whenever the court schedule permits.

Either the Diocese of Brownsville or the employee may request an excuse from jury duty if, in the Diocese of Brownsville’s judgment, the employee’s absence would create serious operational difficulties.

The Diocese of Brownsville will continue to provide health insurance benefits for the full term of the jury duty absence.

Vacation, sick leave, and holiday benefits will continue to accrue during unpaid jury duty leave.

The employee will be allowed to retain any compensation received for his or her participation in jury selection or actually serving in a jury.

, Director of Human Resources
1910 E. Elizabeth St.• Brownsville, TX 78520 • Phone 956-542-2501• Fax 956-542-6751

last updated 19-Sep-2008 13:30 sitemap