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Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So, how would you handle it?

As a nanny if I was ever selected for jury duty I would simply lie to get out of it. If I really wanted to go I wouldn't expect to get paid.

Newsflash:

Failure to appear will mean a bench warrant, prison, or rescheduling of your jury duty, depending on the judge and court. So just show up.

Lying to a judge is perjury, which is a FELONY. So most people would be unlikely to hire you if you are caught. Good luck with that.

Contempt of court is a possibility for all of the above.

Now, want to try answering again?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So, how would you handle it?

As a nanny if I was ever selected for jury duty I would simply lie to get out of it. If I really wanted to go I wouldn't expect to get paid.

Newsflash:

Failure to appear will mean a bench warrant, prison, or rescheduling of your jury duty, depending on the judge and court. So just show up.

Lying to a judge is perjury, which is a FELONY. So most people would be unlikely to hire you if you are caught. Good luck with that.

Contempt of court is a possibility for all of the above.

Now, want to try answering again?

Hope you realize everyone does this and it's common to lie to get out of jury duty and no one ever "gets caught"

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. My state does not require that household employers pay for jury duty. I also would not force her to use her vacation pay if she didn't want to. She would have a job to return to whether jury duty lasted a few days or three months. My DH just had major surgery and we have many medical bills. We cannot afford to cover temp help and pay her her normal salary on top of that. I am asking other parent bosses what they have done in the past that they think is fair, not trying to mistreat my employee.

Are you able to switch to daycare? If your work schedule fits within daycare hours, if day care will save you money, and if you can start daycare within the minimum notice time you are obligated to give your Nanny that her job is ending, then you need to let your Nanny go, write her an am amazing reference, and switch to daycare.

Why? Because you can't afford a nanny if you have huge medical bills and the notion of paying your Nanny her wages when she is involuntarily absent for jury duty.

If you have no access to daycare, or if you have so many kids day care would cost more than a nanny, you need to talk with your nanny. Explain that due to medical bills you would not be able to pay her for more than X days of jury duty. Ask her to decide whether she is willing to gamble on not being chosen for duty, knowing that she would go without pay if she does end up on a jury, or if she would prefer to begin looking for a new position that would start a few weeks after jury dug starts.

You would need to agree to keep her on until jury duty potentially starts, and she would need to agree to stay until then. You would need to promise to pay some severance. Then both of you would begin to look for new possible situations, and part company the week jury duty starts.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So, how would you handle it?

As a nanny if I was ever selected for jury duty I would simply lie to get out of it. If I really wanted to go I wouldn't expect to get paid.

Newsflash:

Failure to appear will mean a bench warrant, prison, or rescheduling of your jury duty, depending on the judge and court. So just show up.

Lying to a judge is perjury, which is a FELONY. So most people would be unlikely to hire you if you are caught. Good luck with that.

Contempt of court is a possibility for all of the above.

Now, want to try answering again?

Hope you realize everyone does this and it's common to lie to get out of jury duty and no one ever "gets caught"

Hope you realize NOT everyone is a liar like you.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So, how would you handle it?

As a nanny if I was ever selected for jury duty I would simply lie to get out of it. If I really wanted to go I wouldn't expect to get paid.

Newsflash:

Failure to appear will mean a bench warrant, prison, or rescheduling of your jury duty, depending on the judge and court. So just show up.

Lying to a judge is perjury, which is a FELONY. So most people would be unlikely to hire you if you are caught. Good luck with that.

Contempt of court is a possibility for all of the above.

Now, want to try answering again?

Hope you realize everyone does this and it's common to lie to get out of jury duty and no one ever "gets caught"

Hope you realize NOT everyone is a liar like you.

NP here. It isn't lying to claim financial hardship. I did this THIS WEEK in MoCo and was excused promptly. No biggie. Enough with the hystrionics and name calling--never mind, I forgot: DCUM

Anonymous wrote:To be quite honest OP, I think it is a crummy thing for you to force your nanny to use her week vacation benefit for jury duty.

A weeks vacation is a work benefit, not something to utilize while performing her civic duty as an American.

It would be absolutely cruel of you to apply it to her serving on a jury.

Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So you've never been called for jury duty? How? Are you an illegal immigrant, not registered to vote, or just oddly lucky?

Because refusing to report to jury duty repeatedly tends to get you tossed in jail, and being absent on a contempt of court charge also disrupts your employers lives, right?

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nannydebsays wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So you've never been called for jury duty? How? Are you an illegal immigrant, not registered to vote, or just oddly lucky?

Because refusing to report to jury duty repeatedly tends to get you tossed in jail, and being absent on a contempt of court charge also disrupts your employers lives, right?

Out of the 10 million people in DC alone, how common do you tihnk it is to be called to jury?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. My state does not require that household employers pay for jury duty. I also would not force her to use her vacation pay if she didn't want to. She would have a job to return to whether jury duty lasted a few days or three months. My DH just had major surgery and we have many medical bills. We cannot afford to cover temp help and pay her her normal salary on top of that. I am asking other parent bosses what they have done in the past that they think is fair, not trying to mistreat my employee.

So her choice is do her civic duty but lose pay for week or more? You are a real peach.

You are a real troll.

No. I am a real,person who also treats everyone in my employ as I wish to be treated. If I am paid by my employer o
If I have jury duty them I would never expect a domestic employee to go without being paid for performing their civic duty.

Most, if not 99%, of you cannot afford a nanny if you cannot afford to,continue to pay while when is on jury duty. Put your kids in day care.

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nannydebsays wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents, I've been a nanny for 15 years and I would never prioritize jury duty over your family and you should allow your nannies too either.

So you've never been called for jury duty? How? Are you an illegal immigrant, not registered to vote, or just oddly lucky?

Because refusing to report to jury duty repeatedly tends to get you tossed in jail, and being absent on a contempt of court charge also disrupts your employers lives, right?

Out of the 10 million people in DC alone, how common do you tihnk it is to be called to jury?

Do you realize that people can be called to county, state and federal district court? Do you realize that the average trial requires going through at least 30 people (usually many, many more) to find jurors and alternates? Do you have any idea how many trials are conducted in any one county court in one month (rural), let alone any courts in the DC area?

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I think the long-term solution to this problem is for jurors to receive minimum wage for all hours required to be on-site, free lunch, free parking, and a transportation reimbursement they are required to be on-site. We would get a better pool of jurors.