“I got summoned for jury duty! Now what?” If you’re summoned to appear for jury duty on a workday, you can report for duty, or postpone duty to non-workdays.
The union contract has a rule to incentivize you to postpone jury duty from workdays to non-workdays by paying you for postponed service on non-workdays. If you get a summons to appear for jury duty on a workday and postpone it to non-workdays, you have the right in the union contract to still get paid. The rate of pay is 75% of the day-to-day Visiting Teacher rate for each day! Read more.
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