Ask them whoever they are.
You get off from work in order to attend court, but your employer does not have to pay you for the lost time.
to the best of my knowledge
They are required to give you time off for it but I know of no states where they have to pay you, and truthfully, why should they when you are not doing anything at all for them.
That is something that was so long ago that it is unfortunately lost in time.
An employer has to pay for all hours worked. Other than that, it needs to follow its own policies about paid time off. Workers comp laws do not require the EMPLOYER to pay - they require INSURANCE to pay lost time benefits.
an indentured servant
An employer does not have to pay a full time employee if there is no work. The employer can lay off the employee. It happens all the time. Sometimes when there is no work, the employer keeps the full time employees working doing maintenance work so that he will have a trained staff when business picks up. Sometimes he has them take a paid vacation when there is no work so they will be back when there is work. Sometimes he just lays them off, at which point they stop being employees and are not paid.
You can pay off your car as fast as you can. That's great you can pay it off so quickly.
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work to pay off a debt
Georgia was founded as a refuge for debtor prisoners to work and pay off their debts.
Work hard and be diligent, your work should pay off.