Any person who is summoned to serve on jury duty or any person, except a defendant in a criminal case, who is summoned or subpoenaed to appear in any court of law or equity when a case is to be heard or who, having appeared, is required in writing by the court to appear at any future hearing, shall neither be discharged from employment, nor have any adverse personnel action taken against him, nor shall he be required to use sick leave or vacation time, as a result of his absence from employment due to such jury duty or court appearance, upon giving reasonable notice to his employer of such court appearance or summons. No person who is summoned and appears for jury duty for four or more hours, including travel time, in one day shall be required to start any work shift that begins on or after 5:00 p.m. on the day of his appearance for jury duty or begins before 3:00 a.m. on the day following the day of his appearance for jury duty. Any employer violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
1981, c. 609; 1985, c. 436; 1988, c. 415; 2000, c. 295; 2002, c. 423; 2004, c. 800; 2005, c. 931.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 10 - Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
§ 18.2-434. What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty
§ 18.2-436. Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence
§ 18.2-437. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-438. Bribes to officers or candidates for office
§ 18.2-439. Acceptance of bribe by officer or candidate
§ 18.2-440. Bribes to officers to prevent service of process
§ 18.2-441. Giving bribes to, or receiving bribes by, commissioners, jurors, etc.
§ 18.2-441.1. Bribery of witnesses
§ 18.2-442. Bribery of participants in games, contests or sports
§ 18.2-443. Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers
§ 18.2-444. Corruptly influencing, or being influenced as, agents, etc.
§ 18.2-445. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-447. When person guilty of bribery
§ 18.2-448. Certain matters not to constitute defenses
§ 18.2-450. Immunity of witnesses
§ 18.2-451. Definitions; application and construction of article
§ 18.2-453. Aiders and abettors
§ 18.2-454. Enjoining barratry
§ 18.2-455. Unprofessional conduct; revocation of license
§ 18.2-456. Cases in which courts and judges may punish summarily for contempt
§ 18.2-457. Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled
§ 18.2-458. Power of judge of district court to punish for contempt
§ 18.2-459. Appeal from sentence of such judge
§ 18.2-460. Obstructing justice; resisting arrest; fleeing from a law-enforcement officer; penalties
§ 18.2-461. Falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials
§ 18.2-462. Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties
§ 18.2-462.1. Use of police radio during commission of crime
§ 18.2-463. Refusal to aid officer in execution of his office
§ 18.2-464. Failure to obey order of conservator of the peace
§ 18.2-465. Officer summoning juror to act impartially
§ 18.2-465.1. Penalizing employee for court appearance or service on jury panel
§ 18.2-466. Corruptly procuring juror to be summoned
§ 18.2-467. Fraud in drawing jurors, etc.
§ 18.2-468. Making sound recordings of jury deliberations
§ 18.2-469. Officer refusing, delaying, etc., to execute process for criminal
§ 18.2-470. Extortion by officer
§ 18.2-471. Fraudulent issue of fee bills
§ 18.2-471.1. Destruction of human biological evidence; penalty
§ 18.2-472. False entries or destruction of records by officers
§ 18.2-473. Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child
§ 18.2-473.1. Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty
§ 18.2-473.2. Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty
§ 18.2-474. Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person
§ 18.2-474.1. Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons
§ 18.2-474.2. Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty
§ 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
§ 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-479. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-480. Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
§ 18.2-480.1. Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases