Regular full-time employees called upon for jury duty in any municipal, county, state or federal court shall advise the district upon receipt of such call. If required to be absent from work for such service, the employee shall be reimbursed for any loss of wages for up to five days while actually performing such service; provided, that the employee shall provide the district a copy of the properly endorsed check or voucher that the employee received for such service. The general manager may, in the general manager’s sole discretion, consider extending jury duty pay in the event that the employee’s jury duty service extends beyond five days. The amount the employee shall be reimbursed shall be determined by subtracting the amount received by the employee for such jury service, excluding any mileage reimbursement, from the amount the employee would have otherwise earned at the employee’s straight time hourly rate of pay during regular working hours, while performing such service. Employees excused from jury duty for one-half day or longer shall return to work immediately and work the remainder of the day. [Res. 767 § 3.2, 2018; Res. 331 § 6, 1977.]