jurry duty

[Guest steve]

I work in New York state. I believe that at present time ther is a law here which states that any company that employs X number of workers is required to pay its workers for time serves on jurry duty. At present the company I work for pays all it's employees this benifit. There is a rumor going around however that to cut costs they may stop paying people like my self who work the third shift which is from 11:00pm to 7:30am. There theory goes that unless you are on a court case that is sequestered, your jurry work will usualy be 9:00am to 5:00pm leaving you plenty of time to get to work. Is this leagle? Can they pay a benifit to 2 shifts and not to the last shift? When would I sleep? I would have to practicly go directly from work to the jurry room with just enough time to shower and change. If I slept after jurry duty that would mean I had no life for 2 weeks I would work for the jurry system in the day for my company at night and sleep in between. Please let me know if they could really do this. By the way this is a major drugstore chain warehouse and nonunion.