Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 6 - Juries
NRS 6.190 - Terminating or threatening to terminate employment because of jury duty prohibited; civil action for unlawful termination; requiring employee to use sick leave or vacation time or to work certain hours prohibited; notice to employer; diss...


1. Any person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity who is:
(a) An employer; or
(b) The employee, agent or officer of an employer, vested with the power to terminate or recommend termination of employment,
of a person who is a juror or who has received a summons to appear for jury duty, and who deprives the juror or person summoned of his or her employment, as a consequence of the person’s service as a juror or prospective juror, or who asserts to the juror or person summoned that his or her service as a juror or prospective juror will result in termination of his or her employment, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. A person discharged from employment in violation of subsection 1 may commence a civil action against his or her employer and obtain:
(a) Wages and benefits lost as a result of the violation;
(b) An order of reinstatement without loss of position, seniority or benefits;
(c) Damages equal to the amount of the lost wages and benefits;
(d) Reasonable attorney’s fees fixed by the court; and
(e) Punitive or exemplary damages in an amount not to exceed $50,000.
3. If a person is summoned to appear for jury duty, the employer and any employee, agent or officer of the employer shall not, as a consequence of the person’s service as a juror or prospective juror:
(a) Require the person to use sick leave or vacation time; or
(b) Require the person to work:
(1) Within 8 hours before the time at which the person is to appear for jury duty; or
(2) If the person’s service has lasted for 4 hours or more on the day of his or her appearance for jury duty, including the person’s time going to and returning from the place where the court is held, between 5 p.m. on the day of his or her appearance for jury duty and 3 a.m. the following day.
Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor.
4. Each summons to appear for jury duty must be accompanied by a notice to the employer of the person summoned. The notice must inform the employer that the person has been summoned for jury duty and must include a copy of the provisions of subsections 1, 2 and 3. The person summoned, if the person is employed, shall give the notice to his or her employer at least 3 days before the person is to appear for jury duty.
5. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who in any manner dissuades or attempts to dissuade a person who has received a summons to appear for jury duty from serving as a juror is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 293; A 1987, 810; 2007, 151)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 6 - Juries

NRS 6.010 - Persons qualified to act as jurors.

NRS 6.020 - Exemptions from service.

NRS 6.030 - Grounds for excusing jurors.

NRS 6.040 - Penalty for failing to attend and serve as a juror.

NRS 6.045 - Designation by rule of district court; selection of trial jurors; list of qualified electors; duties. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Designation by rule of district court; selection of trial jurors; list of qualified electors; dut...

NRS 6.090 - Procedures for forming panel; duties of sheriff and jury commissioner. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Procedures for forming panel; duties of sheriff, chief of police or chief marshal and jury commissioner. [Effective January 1, 2...

NRS 6.100 - Discharge of excess trial jurors.

NRS 6.110 - Counties whose population is 100,000 or more: Selection of jurors and alternate jurors; listing and summoning jurors.

NRS 6.120 - Counties whose population is less than 100,000: Selection of jurors and alternate jurors; listing and summoning jurors.

NRS 6.130 - Permissible summoning of grand jury by filing of affidavit or petition by taxpayer.

NRS 6.132 - Summoning of grand jury by filing of petition by committee of registered voters.

NRS 6.135 - Impaneling of grand juries to investigate state affairs; payment of expenses.

NRS 6.140 - Application to appellate court for order directing selection and impaneling of grand jury.

NRS 6.145 - Recess of grand jury.

NRS 6.150 - Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court or trial jurors in municipal court. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 6.155 - Establishment of program to allow juror to donate money to which juror is entitled for juror’s services and expenses to local agency for prevention of child abuse and neglect.

NRS 6.160 - Payment of jurors.

NRS 6.180 - Expenses of jurors in civil cases.

NRS 6.190 - Terminating or threatening to terminate employment because of jury duty prohibited; civil action for unlawful termination; requiring employee to use sick leave or vacation time or to work certain hours prohibited; notice to employer; diss...