Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE |
Title 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |
Chapter 122. JURORS RIGHT TO REEMPLOYMENT |
Sec. 122.0022. CONTEMPT
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In addition to and without limiting any other sanction or remedy available under this chapter or other law, a court may punish by contempt an employer who terminates, threatens to terminate, penalizes, or threatens to penalize an employee because the employee performs jury duty.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 770, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.