Any employee in a pay status ordered to perform jury service or subpoenaed to court shall be entitled to leave of absence with pay, and without deduction from leave, at an amount equal to the employee's regular earnings. In the case of subpoenas, leave above, the employee is eligible if the appearance time occurs during his or her normal working hours, and the employee is neither a party to the suit nor an expert witness.

All employees will receive regular pay during time actually lost from work due to jury duty or subpoenaed time. Employees will be excused from night shift assignments if they are scheduled for jury duty on the current day, or if the subpoena is for City related business.

The term regular earnings in (1) above means full pay for regularly scheduled work, which the employee would have received had he or she not been called to jury service or subpoenaed, including shift premium or schedule differentials that would have resulted from regularly scheduled work.

All time spent on jury duty or subpoena leave must be accounted for. If an employee is excused from jury service or subpoena on a normal workday, he or she is expected to report for work. Employees must account to their departments for any time off for illness or other reasons, while on jury duty or subpoena leave.

Upon completion of jury service or subpoenaed time, the employee shall submit to the City the warrant for jury fees, witness fees and/or mileage. When an employee is served with a subpoena, the employee shall request witness fees.

Provisions of this section do not apply to part-time employees except that part time employees will be given 1 (one) day only of jury leave each fiscal year.