Section 8-501 - Employment loss. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-501. Employment loss.
 

(a)  Prohibited act.- An employer may not deprive an individual of employment or coerce, intimidate, or threaten to discharge an individual because the individual loses employment time in responding to a summons under this title or attending, or being in proximity to, a circuit court for jury service under this title. 

(b)  Penalty.- A person who violates any provision of this section is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000. 
 

[2006, ch. 372, § 13.]