EMPLOYER INFO
If a full-time employee of yours has been summoned for jury duty, you are required by Alabama Law to pay them their regular wages for the days that they serve as a juror. Please see the excerpt from the Code of Alabama below.
Code of Alabama
"§12-16-8. Excusing of employees for jury service; compensation to which employees entitled during jury service; issuance to jurors of statement showing fee or compensation for jury service.
(a) Upon receiving a summons to report for jury duty, any employee shall
on the next day he is engaged in his employment, exhibit the summons to
his immediate superior, and the employee shall thereupon be excused from
his employment for the day or days required of him in serving as a juror
in any court created by the constitutions of the United States or of the
state of Alabama or the laws of the United States or of the state of
Alabama.
(b) Notwithstanding time excused absence provided in subsection
(a) of this section, any full-time employee shall be entitled to his
usual compensation received from such em1oyment less the fee or
compensation he received for serving as such juror.
(c) It shall be time duty of all persons paying jurors their fee
or compensation for services to issue to each juror a statement
showing the daily fee or compensation and time total fee or compensation
received by time juror. (Acts 1969, No. 619, p. 1126.)
§ 12-16-8.1 Discharge of employee
on Jury duty forbidden; when employee must return to work; employee’s
cause of action upon discharge; damages; provision supplemental to other
law.
(a) No employer in this state may discharge any employee solely because he serves on any jury empanelled under any state or federal statute; provided, however, that the employee reports for work on his next regularly scheduled hour after being dismissed from any jury.
(b) Any employee who is so discharged shall have a cause of action against the employer for said discharge in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state and shall be entitled to recover both actual amid punitive damages. (c) The provisions of this section are supplemental to any statutes, existing or to be enacted in the future, that are designed to protect and safeguard a citizen’s right and duty to serve on a lawful jury, and the provisions of this section shall not repeal or supersede the provisions of any law not directly inconsistent herewith. (Acts 1980, No. 80-747, p. 1520.)
Collateral references. — 56 C.J.S., Master 63 Am. Jur. 2d, Master end Servant, *1 48, and Servant, § 54. 96. "
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