Get to know your AMEA - Jury Duty

Dear AMEA members,

Jurors perform a vital role in the American justice system. Jury service is one way we aid in the maintenance of law and order by ensuring the verdicts that affect our fellow citizens are rendered impartially. That said, there is never a convenient time to be summoned to jury duty or to appear in court. AMEA recognizes the importance of access to justice. Our members negotiated the following provisions in the MOU to ensure we can access the justice system, as a juror or witness, without facing economic reprisal: 

ARTICLE 36 - JURY DUTY AND COURT APPEARANCES

36.1 In the event any full-time employee is duly summoned to any court for the purpose of performing jury duty, he/she shall receive his/her regular compensation for any regularly scheduled working hours spent in actual performance of such service.

36.1.1 Whenever an employee is duly summoned to appear as a witness, except where the employee is a litigant or a defendant in a criminal case or any action brought about as a result of his/her own misconduct, he/she shall receive his/her regular compensation for any regularly scheduled working hours spent in actual performance of such service.

36.1.2 Employees receiving witness fees shall remit such fees to the City Treasurer in order to be considered at work for payroll purposes during time spent as such witnesses.

AMEA believes it is important that our members play a role in upholding justice and should never have to choose between fulfilling their civic duty and maintaining their family’s economic stability.

Publication Date: May 7, 2021