Every person, firm or corporation who discharges or causes to be discharged an employee, 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 liable to the person so discharged in a civil action at law for both actual and exemplary damages. Damages shall include all pecuniary losses suffered including, but not limited to, lost earnings, both past and future, mental anguish and all reasonable damages incurred in obtaining other suitable employment.

Laws 1978, SB 242, c. 142, § 2, eff. October 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1177, c. 99, § 16, eff. November 1, 1987.