Originally Posted by
gollum
There are some seriously dumb people out there. Why would someone even think that mil leave (where you are getting paid by the gov) should also be paid by your company from which you are not working for those days. Sick leave is a paid benefit as a result of being employed and jury duty is unpaid by the gov so the company thought it was important to fulfill a civic duty so they are paying people.
The “dumb people” are those in Congress who pass ambiguous laws. A single congressional aide doing a day or two’s research ought to be able to craft a Bill spelling out the requirements specifically without flowery language and weasel words that can be twisted every which way. And actually, jury duty IS paid for by the government, at least in my state. Not much, I’ll grant you, but about $50 a day, a number that probably hasn’t changed in the last 70 years.