{"id":51170,"date":"2018-05-24T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51170"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:04","slug":"armstrong-crime-doesnt-pay-but-jury-duty-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/armstrong-crime-doesnt-pay-but-jury-duty-should\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Crime doesn\u2019t pay, but jury duty should"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/crime-doesnt-pay-but-jury-duty-should-81545?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2023%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2023%202018+CID_788cb7498d5f5493e0ca26de0aeada77&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Crime%20doesnt%20pay%20but%20jury%20duty%20should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about pay rates offered to jury duty participants.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>A\u00a0House of Commons committee recommended\u00a0this week that provinces increase their jury pay rates to at least $120 per day.\u00a0The committee report\u00a0further suggests provinces cover jurors\u2019 expenses, including transportation and meals. That works out to $15 per hour plus expenses, assuming eight-hour days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not coincidentally, that\u2019s what\u00a0Alberta\u2019s minimum wage will become on Oct. 1. The provincial labour minister, Christina May,\u00a0justified the increase\u00a0by stating \u201cthis is exactly the time for a fair wage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A similar increase is under way in Ontario. Liberal Kathleen Wynne, now running for re-election, has said \u201cwe need to make certain that our workers are treated fairly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So if these provincial governments are serious about fairness, they should implement the federal recommendations. They need to start paying jurors at least the minimum wage for trial participation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Suppose you are one of the thousands of Canadians summoned to courthouses each year for possible jury selection. In most provinces, your employer is obliged to release you, but isn\u2019t obliged to pay you while you\u2019re missing work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/crime-doesnt-pay-but-jury-duty-should-81545?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2023%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2023%202018+CID_788cb7498d5f5493e0ca26de0aeada77&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Crime%20doesnt%20pay%20but%20jury%20duty%20should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about pay rates offered to jury duty participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51172,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170\/revisions\/51172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}