JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 69A
Other offences relating to employment conditions of jurors
JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 69A
Other offences relating to employment conditions of jurors
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.
(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.
(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.
