Jury Duty And Your Job
MCL 600.1348 — no firing, discipline or threat over jury duty, and no extra hours on a jury day
An employer or its agent may not threaten to discharge or discipline a person, or discharge or discipline the person or cause that to happen, because the person is summoned for jury duty, serves on a jury, or has served on one. An employer that does is guilty of a misdemeanor and may also be punished for contempt of court.
Nor may an employer require a person with jury duty to work hours that, added to the hours spent on jury duty that day, exceed the hours the person normally and customarily works in a day, or that run past the person's normal and customary quitting time. The exceptions are hours the person voluntarily agrees to and hours a collective bargaining agreement provides for. Requiring them anyway is also a misdemeanor, and may also be punished as contempt.
The section sets no punishment of its own for either misdemeanor, so the general one applies: up to 90 days, a fine up to $500, or both.
Whether an employer pays for time spent on a jury is not addressed in this section.
Sources for this section (2)
- MCL 600.1348 — Jurors; threats, discharge or discipline by an employer, and extra hours
- MCL 750.504 — Punishment of a misdemeanor when not fixed by statute
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of September 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Michigan attorney.