{"id":204685,"date":"2021-04-21T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/?p=204685"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:36:32","slug":"pay-employees-on-jury-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/employment\/pay-employees-on-jury-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Have to Pay Employees on Jury Service in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jury service is where New Zealanders are randomly selected (via a \u2018summons\u2019 in the mail) to attend court and sit on a jury for a legal case. These cases can range from minor civil cases to major criminal offences. Jury members can be away from their jobs for anywhere between a few hours to several weeks. As an employer, you do not have to pay employees away on jury service but do have other obligations. For example, you must ensure that an employee can serve on a jury without being worried about dismissal or having their job otherwise affected as a result. This article will set out:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jury service in New Zealand;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">your obligations for employees away on jury service; and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how payment works for employees on jury service.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Does Jury Service Involve in New Zealand?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most people older than 18 in New Zealand can be asked to serve on a jury once every two years. New Zealand courts use juries across a wide range of different legal cases. These juries consist of a random selection of New Zealanders. For civil cases, juries sit in for claims of up to $200,000. Juries also serve on criminal cases, from minor offences to trials for serious offences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The process for jury service in New Zealand involves multiple stages. If an employee is chosen for jury service, they will receive a summons in the mail. The summons details what the employee needs to do and when they should attend court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Receiving a summons does not necessarily mean that a person will sit on a jury. When they arrive in the courtroom after a summons, names of all the people called up are drawn at random to join the jury on different cases. Even then, lawyers can \u2018challenge\u2019 jury members and remove them from a jury at the preliminary stage. Employees will not know until they have been assigned to a jury how long they are likely to be away from work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Employer\u2019s Obligations to Employees for Jury Service<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jury service is an important constitutional institution in New Zealand. Likewise, employment law protects employees when they are away on jury duty. As an employer, you owe certain obligations to employees who must be absent from work to serve jury duty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One obligation is to protect an employee\u2019s job while they attend jury service. You must allow an employee to attend jury service and cannot pressure them not to attend court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You also cannot threaten to dismiss an employee or otherwise threaten their position for attending jury service, no matter the length of the case the employee is serving. Likewise, you cannot require an employee to use annual leave to cover their period away. If you breach any of these obligations, the consequences can be extremely serious. You face conviction and may receive a fine of up to $10,000. 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People who attend jury service do receive a small attendance fee from the Ministry of Justice. However, this fee usually does not cover an employee\u2019s usual wages or salary. Likewise, many employers choose to top up the payments from the Ministry of Justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is generally best practice to ensure that employees receive their normal pay while away on jury service. Your business\u2019 policy or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/employment\/employment-agreement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">employment agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> should cover this payment. This is because your employee is not taking a holiday when they are away on jury service, but performing an important (and often difficult) duty for the benefit of New Zealand. Ensuring they receive their usual pay helps support the employee and the broader civil institution of jury service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jury service is an important civic duty for New Zealanders. Accordingly, there are employment protections for employees when they are serving their jury duty. As an employer, you cannot dismiss or punish an employee for being away on jury service. Likewise, you cannot pressure them not to turn up or take annual leave while they are away.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want to know more about jury service and your obligations to your employees serving on a jury, contact <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/employment-lawyers-lp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LegalVision\u2019s employment lawyers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on 0800 005 570 or complete the form on this page.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1618965557511\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>What is jury service?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Jury service is where New Zealanders are randomly selected (via a \u2018summons\u2019 in the mail) to attend court. Once at court, attendees are randomly selected to sit on different juries for separate cases. These cases can range from minor civil cases to major criminal offences. Likewise, the time commitment for jury members can accordingly range between hours to weeks.\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1618965568813\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Do employers have to pay employees on jury service?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">No, employers are not under a legal obligation to pay employees while they are away on jury service. However, many employers do so as an <a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/employment\/good-faith-obligation\/\">act of good faith<\/a> towards the employee. Likewise, providing payment for jury service recognises its importance as a civil institution.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1618965578485\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>What other obligations do employers have towards employees on jury service?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Employers must allow their employees to attend jury service if they receive a summons and cannot punish an employee from being away from their job for jury service.\u00a0 Doing so is a serious offence in New Zealand. 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Employers also cannot put pressure on employees to use their annual leave or other leave to cover the period of time they are away while sitting on a jury.","inLanguage":"en-NZ"},"inLanguage":"en-NZ"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204746,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204685\/revisions\/204746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.nz\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}