Employee on jury service

Summary

If you have an employee on jury service, you don't have to pay them. Although, you can do so if you wish.

Description

When an employee is on jury service, you have three options:

  • Pay the employee their normal earnings in full
  • Pay the employee nothing
  • Top up the court loss of earnings allowance

It's up to the employer to decide which option to choose. Read more >

Resolution

It's common for the court to write to the employer asking for the amount of the employee's daily net pay. For each of the days they are in court, the employee receives this value from the court. To calculate the daily net pay amount, you can process the payroll as normal then divide the net pay by the number of working days.

Pay the employee nothing

You can put the employee on hold so that they aren't paid for the relevant period.

  1. Double-click the relevant employee, then click the Employment tab.
  2. From the Status drop-down list, select On Hold.
Pay the employee their normal earnings in full

You can pay the employee as normal.

Top up the court loss of earnings allowance

To account for the court payment, you should reduce the employees pay so that the usual take home net pay amount is reduced by the value of the court payment.

  1. Highlight the employee from the Employee List.
  2. Click Payroll, then Enter Payments.
  3. Enter in the employee’s regular pay as if they had been working, then make a note of the usual take home net pay amount.
  4. Reduce the employees gross pay until the usual take home net pay has been reduced by the value of the court payment.
  5. Click Save/Next, then click Close.

This ensures that the net pay the employee receives is reduced by the value of the court payment, but that the tax, NI and any other deductions still calculate correctly on the pay the employee actually receives.

If the employee contributes to a pension scheme, the deduction is made as normal, as the court payment doesn't affect the calculation.

Record jury service in the diary

If required, to enter the dates the employee is on jury service:

  1. Double-click the relevant employee, then click the Absence tab.
  2. Click and drag to select the required dates, then right-click the selected dates.
  3. Click Absence, then click Jury Service.
  4. Choose the absence length then, if required, enter absence details in the Comments box.
  5. Click OK, then click Save.
  6. Click Close.

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Solution ID
200427112225216
Last Modified Date
Fri Dec 29 16:40:09 UTC 2023
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