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Jury and witness duty leave handbook statement: Florida

This resource explains when Florida employers should include a jury and witness duty leave handbook statement to inform employees, including supervisors, about the availability of leave and to demonstrate compliance with Florida’s jury and witness duty leave law.

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by Amy E. Mendenhall and Susie Wine, Littler

When to include

Florida employers should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of jury and witness duty leave and to show their compliance with Florida’s jury and witness duty leave law.

In this guide, learn about:

  • Customizable handbook statement
  • Guidance for employers
  • Additional resources

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Littler

Littler, the largest global employment and labor law practice, exclusively represents the global employer community in all aspects of employment and labor law. Littler litigates, mediates and negotiates some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.

Littler’s practice areas are extensive and their expertise crosses over multiple industries and spans a wide array of employment law areas such as discrimination and harassment, labor management relations, executive compensation, ERISA and benefit plan litigation, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, hiring, performance management and termination, employment practices audits and wage and hour.

Littler is the exclusive author of Brightmine’s prestigious Employee Handbook. Their experience with preparing employee handbooks and their ongoing contributions to Brightmine in the areas of federal and state leaves of absence, disabilities and multistate employer issues made them a natural fit to partner with us on the creation of a robust set of model handbook policy statements and guidance for federal, state and key municipalities.

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