Jury Duty or Serving as a Witness

1. Regular employees selected for jury duty or subpoenaed as a witness shall continue to receive regular pay while serving subpoenaed jury or witness time, and is permitted to retain any compensation received for jury or court witness time.  Employees appearing in court on their own behalf, however, must use vacation leave.
2. The employee is expected to report to work all or part of any day he/she is not engaged in jury or witness time.
3. A copy of the subpoena or summons must be attached to the Leave Request and submitted to the  appropriate vice president  or to the President.
4. Under normal circumstances, Pratt Community College will not ask for deferment of jury duty.

This replaces policy dated Oct-21-1996