Every person, firm or corporation who discharges an employee or causes an employee to be discharged because of said employee's absence from his employment by reason of said employee's having been required to serve as a grand, multicounty grand, or petit juror on a grand, multicounty grand, or petit jury shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).

Laws 1978, SB 242, c. 142, § 34, eff. October 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1177, c. 99, § 15, eff. November 1, 1987.