As a small business with employees Jury Duty pay is a difficult decision. I was faced with it earlier this year and ended up setting my policy. I pay for two days of Jury Duty and after that the employee can take unpaid time off. It is at their discretion to use vacation time (I provide 4 weeks) if they wish.
I'd like to do more, but losing a key employee to an extended jury duty is something I just couldn't cover financially. I budget for 4 weeks of vacation time but adding a few weeks of jury duty to that would just stretch the budget too far. It's the fact that it is completely unpredictable. Will I get stuck with a few days or will I lose the employee for weeks. In LA if you get place on a jury the average lengths 10 days.
If I got four weeks of vacation, I don't think I'd complain about jury duty.
You are a very reasonable boss, ND.
no shit, ND?
applying to work for ND post-haste.
I didn't do much work for ND but I'm pretty sure he is the best boss of all the bosses.
In LA if you get place on a jury the average lengths 10 days.
Seriously?
You should ask if the therapist is single. And hot.
Shit, Dana, that's so funny I might just have to.
Strix, is that a new one? I would recommend going through more of the old ones if you haven't, ie, the ones that are generic and CHEAP. I'm on generic zoloft, for example. Or is there a specific reason that one is being recommended to you?
Seriously?
That's what has always been quoted to me when I've been called for jury duty. In LA county the numbers are all a mess. They need something like a million jurors for the jury pool each year, and they only have an effective group to pull from of something like 1.8 million, so yeah, if you turn up you get called a lot.
I've been called more than once, but have never been placed on a jury.
As for my business, my rule of thumb when faced with a question of how to run my business is to do the thing I wish my former employers had done. I don't always succeed, but I do try. I also work under the idea that I will run my business the way that I think a businesses ought to be run, not how the current business community says they should be run. It may mean my business fails at some point, and if it does, at least I will be able to say it failed on my terms. So far, it's been successful.
