Section 43M — Employment Rights Act 1996: Jury service

Jury service 43M 1 An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer on the ground that the employee—

a has been summoned under the Juries Act 1974, Part 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 , the Court of Session Act 1988 or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 to attend for service as a juror, or b has been absent from work because he attended at any place in pursuance of being so summoned.

2 This section does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal within the meaning of Part 10.

3 For the purposes of this section, an employee is not to be regarded as having been subjected to a detriment by a failure to pay remuneration in respect of a relevant period unless under his contract of employment he is entitled to be paid that remuneration.

4 In subsection (3) “ a relevant period ” means any period during which the employee is absent from work because of his attendance at any place in pursuance of being summoned as mentioned in subsection (1)(a).