New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 69A

69A Other offences relating to employment conditions of jurors

(1) An employer must not require an employee to use any leave to which the employee is entitled for the purpose of complying with a summons to serve as a juror.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent an employee from requesting to use any leave to which he or she is entitled for the purpose of complying with a summons to serve as a juror, or an employer from granting any such request.

(3) An employer must not require an employee--

(a) to carry out any work on any day on which the employee is serving as a juror, or

(b) to undertake any additional hours of work to compensate for work time lost by the employee while serving as a juror.

(4) Subsection (3) does not prevent an employer from requiring an employee who is empanelled as a juror to carry out work during normal working hours on any day if the jury of which the employee is a member is not required to attend at the relevant court or coronial inquest on that day.

(5) In this section--

"employee" means--

(a) a full-time employee, or

(a1) a part-time employee, or

(b) an employee who, as a regular casual employee (or partly as a regular casual employee and partly as a full-time or part-time employee), has worked with the employer for at least 12 months on an unbroken, regular and systematic basis (including any period of authorised leave or absence).

"employer" includes a person acting on behalf of the employer.

"normal working hours" means the period between 9 am and 6 pm on any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.