NEW YORK INCREASES JURY DATY PAY Effective June 8, 2025, the daily rate for jury duty in New York state increased from $40 to $72. As was the case before, employers with 11 or more employees must pay employees the daily rate for each of their first three days of jury service. Employees of smaller employers are paid the daily rate by the state. As always, exempt employees should be paid their full salary unless they’re gone for an entire workweek and do no work at all during that time, though employers can offset the amount the employee receives from the state.
The law also increased protections for discrimination against employees who serve on juries. For details on how juror pay works in New York, see New York’s Jury Duty Information for Employers..
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Ensure that your payroll department is made award of the increase from $40 to $72
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Employers should review and update their jury duty policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the new requirement.
REMINDER: NEW YORK COVID-19 PAID LEAVE ENDS ON JULY 2025 New York State’s COVID-19 paid leave law will expire on July 31, 2025. After that date, employers are no longer required to provide separate paid leave for employees under COVID-19 quarantine or isolation orders. Any time off for COVID-related reasons will need to be taken under existing leave policies, such as New York Paid Sick Leave.
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Employers should remove this policy from the handbook.
