Part of this has already been said. The PWA requires you to notify the company immediately upon receipt of the summons. This step protects your pay. While someone previously implied that something changed in the contract regarding the company determining whether you notified them immediately or not, that is not correct. The only thing that changed regarding jury duty during C2012 was the title of the section (now Legal Duty Leave) and the company's option to post known legal duty leave.

Once you notify the company of your jury duty, they are obligated to ensure you are available to perform your legal duties. They can accomplish that several ways.

1. They can drop the entire trip that conflicts with your jury duty.
2. They can drop a portion of the trip in an effort to deconflict the jury duty.
3. If you notify them prior to the close of PBS bidding for the affected month, they have the option to pre-post known legal duty leave on some or all of the days you have jury duty. These pre-posted days have a value of 5:15 per day. (This was the new part under C2012 that did not previously exist) They can choose to not pre-post in hopes that there will be little to no conflict with your PBS award, but they then run the risk of you being awarded a big fat trip that conflicts. It is the company's choice to make.

You are pay protected in the above scenarios for the entire scheduled value of what was dropped as long as you let the company know about your jury duty as soon as you find out about it. If the summons shows up at the house and you sit on it for a couple of weeks before letting the company know, they are within their rights to not pay you for the time dropped to allow you to perform your legal duties. They still have to let you off for it though. The company can also reach out to the court to seek your release from jury duty, although this is not a very common occurrence.