Jury Act 1977

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.

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.

An employer must not require an employee—

to carry out any work on any day on which the employee is serving as a juror, or

to undertake any additional hours of work to compensate for work time lost by the employee while serving as a juror.

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.

In this section—

a full-time employee, or

a part-time employee, or

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).