Federal Law A number of federal laws require employers to grant eligible employees leave from work (either paid or unpaid) for various reasons outside of family and medical leave. For example, the federal Jury System Improvement Act prohibits employers from discharging any permanent employee by reason of the employee's federal jury service or scheduled attendance for such service. Many states also prohibit employers from penalizing employees for attending jury service, and some require employers to pay employees who are asked to serve jury duty.   The federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) provides service members the right to be reemployed in their civilian jobs following military service, if certain conditions are met. Many states have enacted their own mandatory military leave laws. While there is no federal law that requires employers to provide employees time off to vote in a national or state election, many states have voting leave laws which regulate the amount of time permitted away from the workplace to vote, whether wages may be deducted, and which elections are subject to the requirements for voting leave. Many states also have laws requiring that employers allow employees to be absent from work, either with or without pay, due to other specified circumstances.