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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="8-501" title_number="8" title_name="Juries and Jurors" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An employer may not deprive an individual of employment or coerce, intimidate, or threaten to discharge an individual because the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Loses employment time in responding to a summons under this title or attending, or being in proximity to, a circuit court for jury service under this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Exercises a right to refrain from work under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An employer may not require an individual who is summoned and appears for jury service for 4 or more hours, including traveling time, to work an employment shift that begins:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or after 5 p.m. on the day of the individual’s appearance for jury service; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Before 3 a.m. on the day following the individual’s appearance for jury service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates any provision of this section is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000.</text>
  </level>
</section>
