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UCLA Procedure 640.1: Jury Service (Academic and Staff

Personnel)

Issuing Officer: Assistant Vice Chancellor, Campus Human Resources

Responsible Dept: Campus Human Resources

Effective Date: July 1, 1998

Supersedes: UCLA Procedure 640.1, dated 1/1/81

I. REFERENCES

II. BACKGROUND

III. GENERAL POLICY

IV. PROCEDURES

V. ATTACHMENTS

REFERENCES

1. Staff Personnel Policy Section 425.3, Jury Duty and Grand Jury Duty, 11/1/80;

2. The CALL--UCLA Summary of Policy--Academic Personnel: Appendix 16.

II.

BACKGROUND

California law governing jury service requires that former campus policy be modified. This

campus procedure applies to both academic and staff personnel.

The former California law included a number of categorical exemptions from service, but now all

of these have been eliminated. The primary effect of this change at UCLA is that the exemption

for teachers has been removed. There is now only one encompassing excuse from jury service,

which is:

The Court shall excuse a person from jury service upon finding that the jury service

would entail undue hardship on the person or the public serviced by the person.

III. GENERAL POLICY

The University of California continues to hold the view that jury service is a public responsibility

which University personnel should meet. There are cases, however, when absence from University

duties would work a great hardship on the University. In such a case, it is the employee’s

responsibility to seek excuse from service; the University can do no more than assist in such a case

and may supply the employee with a letter describing the nature of the hardship and requesting

excuse (refer to Section V below). The University cannot guarantee that a request for excuse will

be accepted, and it is likely that any excuse granted will take the form of a deferment until

arrangements can be made to avoid the hardship. For assistance in preparing a hardship letter,

contact the Office of Campus Counsel .

It should be noted that departments must require written verification of actual jury service from

personnel returning from jury service. A sample verification form is provided in Attachment A.

Ucla Jury Service Verification Slip