My buddy lives in Quebec, and was summoned for jury duty.
Our employer pays for only two weeks worth of wages in this case.
Does anyone know of any way for him to get out of this, or if there are other laws in place that won’t leave him pennyless if this drags on for months?
Do prospective jurors in Quebec have to have some proficiency in the French language?
I got called in Ontario. No shaving, old jeans, old tee shirt, long wild curly hair (not pony tailed), and refused (emphatically) to swear on the Bible, and took the secular oath instead.
It was a drug trial. Strangely, the Crown Attorney (Canadian for DA) didn’t want me on the jury. 
I did shower, though. I do have some standards!
I would ask the HR office at the employer’s for confirmation of the “two weeks only” policy, and for what they might do if the trial runs over that amount of time.
Some years back, I was called for jury duty in Ontario. Unlike most people who act on various juries during the two weeks they have been called for, I turned out to be assigned to a single high-profile coroner’s jury, with plenty of media attention. It could well go on longer than two weeks (although, as things turned out, it didn’t).
Knowing that our employee manual had the “only two weeks pay” rule, I called my office about the rule at the start of the hearing. “No problem,” the HR office said, “we’ll make an exception in this case and cover you for the entire time.”
Seems they felt that since most jurors are done in two weeks, they didn’t want anybody tacking a few days off on the end of their time there and claiming they were still on jury duty. But if the person was in fact still on the jury after that time and they could confirm it (and let’s face it, all they had to do to check on me was to watch the evening news), they were willing to pay them.
You could also check Quebec’s labour laws. There may be something in there that would supersede your company policy.