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B-70371 1 (1976-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcxg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-70371 MATTER OF: DIGEST: OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20549 U 11w30 DATE: JUL 13 1976 Jury Service Fees - Government Employees in Federal Courts 1. Computation of jury service fee payable to Federal Government employees whose period of jury service in Federal courts overlaps in part their normal work- day shall oe based on jury service fee of $20 pro- nated over standard 8-hour workday, that is $2.60 for each hour of jury service outside hours employees worked or would have worked but for jury service. 53 Comp. Gen. 407 (1973) modified. 2. In computing excess hours of jury service in Federal court over number of employee's working hours in day, fractional hours shall be rounded off, one-half hour or more being considered one hour. 3. When end of employee's scheduled workday coincides with beginning of Federal jury service, there is no necessity to prorate jury fee. Any travel time between duty station and court is to be con- sidered as court leave. The Deputy Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, by letter of December 29, 1975, has requested modification of our decision in 53 Comp. Gen. 407 (1973) con- cerning the payment of jury fees to Federal employees on a prorated basis when the hours of jury service in a Federal court overlaps the employee's working hours and are in excess of the hours the employee would be required to worz. We have been requested to modify the method of computing the prorated fees so as to eliminate certain administrative problems which have resulted from implementation of the decision. In this connection we have also been requested to determine how fractional hours are to be treated in the computations and to advise whether proration is required when the be4nning of the jury service coincides with the end of the.employee's normal working hours but does not overlap. In 53 Comp. Gen. 407, supra, we overruled prior decisions which prohibited the payment of jury fees by Federal courts to Federal employees where the period of jury duty overlapped any portion of the employee's duty status period. In the cited deci- sion, we held that an employee is entitled to a proportionate part of the jury fee for each hour of jury service performed, in a PUBLISHED DECISION 55 Comp.Gen.

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