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Professional Staff Leave
Civil Duty Leave

UNDERSTAND

Professional staff employees receive regular pay (civil duty leave) while serving on jury duty, when subpoenaed as a trial witness, or to exercise other subpoenaed civil duties as specified in the Professional Staff Program.

Eligibility

Professional staff employees are eligible for civil leave immediately upon employment at the University.

Employees are generally not entitled to civil leave for civil legal actions that they initiate, or when named as defendants in a private legal action that is unrelated to their UW employment.

Compensation

In addition to regular pay, professional staff employees may retain any compensation received for exercising a civil duty.

ACT

Requesting civil duty leave

If you have received notice that you need to exercise a civil duty, please take the following steps to request civil duty leave:

  1. Provide your supervisor with a copy of the summons received from the city, county, state or federal government.
  2. Follow your department’s normal leave request procedures to obtain written approval for use of civil leave.
  3. If approved, a copy of the approval is retained in your department file to support entries made in the UW Online Work Leave System (OWLS), or other authorized leave tracking system.

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