Employers can terminate employees who serve on juries, as long as they do so for a legitimate reason other than the jury service. That’s the bottom line of a recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Wanda Rogers, a former closing officer for a title company in Louisiana, had alleged that her employer terminated her because of the days she took off to serve on a grand jury, but the Fifth Circuit ruled that she didn’t have a claim under the Jury System Improvement Act (JSIA), 28 U.S.C. § 1875. The JSIA protects federal jurors’ employment status; it prohibits employers from discharging, intimidating, threatening or coercing any permanent employee by reason of the employee’s federal jury service or scheduled attendance for such service.
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