# Nebraska — Jury duty employer pay requirements by US state — whether an employer must keep paying wages during jury service, how much, for how long, quoted from the state's own statute

For Nebraska, employer pay rule is No employer shall subject an employee to discharge, loss of pay, loss of sick leave, loss of vacation time, or any other form of penalty on account of his or her absence from employment by reason of jury duty, except that an employer may reduce the pay of an employee by an amount equal to any compensation, other than expenses, paid by the court for jury duty; statute is Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-1674, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Nebraska _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Employer pay rule:** No employer shall subject an employee to discharge, loss of pay, loss of sick leave, loss of vacation time, or any other form of penalty on account of his or her absence from employment by reason of jury duty, except that an employer may reduce the pay of an employee by an amount equal to any compensation, other than expenses, paid by the court for jury duty. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-1674 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> No employer shall subject an employee to discharge, loss of pay, loss of sick leave, loss of vacation time, or any other form of penalty on account of his or her absence from employment by reason of jury duty, except that an employer may reduce the pay of an employee by an amount equal to any compensation, other than expenses, paid by the court for jury duty.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Statute

> Nebraska Revised Statute 25-1674

## Source

- https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1674

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2027-09-02.
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