Quote Quoting PayrolGuy
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That link your read has to do with unemployment. If you are at an employer and lets say they allow 3 absences per year and then you are terminated on number 4. TWC would not disqualify you from UI if you were terminated for absences because you violated the employer's absence policy.

I can find Texas law with protection for jury duty but nothing that provides any protection for a witness.
What do you mean when you say it is to do with unemployment? You mean it would just be relevant during an unemployment income application, but it is not relevant while employed? That's a bit insane. And yeah, I can't find anything about witness duty either, other than what I quoted.

Well we're now at the point where I can't risk using a sick day in case I need it in the future, so my only option is to just take an unauthorized, unpaid day off, for a hearing on a crime that I didn't really witness anything to other than my partner calling the police, and didn't give a statement for. Sigh. I'm basically being called in just to shrug my shoulders.

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Your employer may not discipline you for complying with a subpoena, but your employer does not have to pay you for the time you miss from work.

If you have accrued vacation time sufficient to cover the missed day, and are otherwise entitled to obtain vacation time for that day consistent with your employer's requirements for requesting and scheduling vacation, then your employer should follow its policies and allow you to take the vacation day -- to do otherwise would be reasonably characterized as penalizing you for observing the subpoena.
Thank you for the information. So how does it work if I have already taken my vacation time and have none left for the year, i.e. no vacation day in order to attend the court hearing?