Jury duty in storm (attorney, wages, law)

[rlrl]

I was asked to go to jury duty tomorrow(big storm predicted) and to show up at 10:30. if I am getting a delay on public transit (I always leave very early anyway) do you think others will be experiencing the same thing? I have no problem with public transit but I've never used it in a storm train/bus for jury duty so all of a sudden i'm antsy about it

does anyone know at what point will the Bx 9 bus not be able to make it up the steep hill on W Kingsbridge Rd? Do you think the D or the 4 will be running? maybe i will take the 1 train to the 6 bus to avoid the hill

[rlrl]

May an employer require an employee to take vacation or other paid leave while serving?
No. It is an illegal penalty to force an employee to charge jury duty absence against vacation, personal or sick time. However, an employee may choose paid leave over losing wages. An employer who penalizes an employee for service as a juror by forcing the juror to use paid leave may be prosecuted by the Office of the Attorney General and subjected to criminal penalties.


**this is from the NY juror handbook.

I served a total of 10 days, my employer is supposed to pay the first 3 days but I am not sure what the situation will be for the other 7 days. The law says they are not supposed to force you into using vacation, personal, sick time and that the employee may choose paid leave as opposed to losing wages. How would one use paid leave, there is only unpaid or family leave i believe. Does anyone know how this works? Has anyone been thru this before? I think i am the only one at my office who served so much time--all the other employees only served 2 days so they're not familiar with this

I left my time sheet blank (Sunday is a workday for me) on Sunday and asked the accounting office(who were not there Sunday) to assist me with filling in the jury svce days because I had no idea what to indicate for the days i was serving.