Common use of Jury/Witness Service Clause in Contracts

Jury/Witness Service. (a) When an employee is required to serve on a jury or to appear as a witness in response to a subpoena because of having witnessed an accident during his working hours, the Company shall pay him for time spent in actual jury service or as a witness at his regular straight-time rate for the hours in his regular working schedule except as provided in (e) below. (b) If an employee's regular schedule includes a shift or shifts other than day shift, his shift shall be changed to all days effective with the first day of service as a juror or witness. If an employee is not required to remain at the courthouse (or jury/witness service location) at any time during the day shift, he must call the Company and receive instructions on whether to report for work or not. (c) When an employee on jury or witness service is relieved from such service, he shall be returned to the shift assigned to before he was changed to all days because of such service. Shift changes for purposes of this Section 10 shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 2 of this Article 5. (d) Any time during which an employee is subject to call for jury service or as a witness but during which he does not report for or actually serve on a jury or as a witness shall not be covered by this Section 10; however, the time so spent shall not be considered as time worked for the purpose of calculating overtime. Should the employee be required to be present in court in a case where he is a party litigant, no compensation will be allowed. (e) When an absence under this Section 10 occurs during a work week regularly scheduled to exceed forty (40) hours and such absence includes the regularly scheduled work day which would result in the employee being scheduled in excess of forty (40) hours, such employee shall be paid an additional one-half (1/2) hour of pay at the regular straight-time rate for each regularly scheduled hour in excess of forty (40) hours during that work week.