| Leave Reporting | The following terms and conditions apply:
- Court leave must be reported for the applicable hours/days on the employee's attendance record.
- Upon request, employees who have scheduled annual leave at the time they are called for court duty may substitute court leave for the applicable number of hours of annual leave.
- In accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated 22-4-108, employees will be excused from returning to employment for any scheduled work day when their responsibility for jury duty exceeds three hours during the day for which they seek an excuse. Employees serving less than three hours on a scheduled work day are expected to return to work for the remainder of their work day. Travel time is not to be included in determining whether or not an employee's actual jury duty service has exceeded three hours.
- If an employee summoned for jury duty is working a night shift or is working during hours preceding those in which court is normally held, he/she will also be excused from employment as provided by this section for the shift immediately preceding the first day of service. After the first day of service, if responsibility for jury duty exceeds three hours during a day, the employee will be excused from the next scheduled work period occurring within 24 hours of jury service. Unresolved questions concerning the application of the provisions of this paragraph to a particular work shift will be conclusively resolved by the trial judge of the court to which the employee has been summoned. An employee's work schedule will not be changed because of court leave.
- Employees called in their official University capacity to be a witness for the State will be considered to be in a normal duty status; court leave will not be necessary.
- Employees involved in personal litigation or called by a private party as a witness in a court may use accrued annual leave or take leave without pay.
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