Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 55
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2 Q. If you go to paragraph 7 in your statement, please, you say
3 at the bottom that you "would not consider it fair for
4 someone who did not work as hard or as well as me to be
5 paid the same"?
6 A. Yes.
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8 Q. Do you think that hard work should be rewarded?
9 A. Yes, I do.
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11 Q. Under "scheduling", you do say that, technically, your
12 hours are not guaranteed, but you have been able to always
13 get the hours you wanted?
14 A. Yes; since I have become breakfast Manager, yes.
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16 Q. You say you have never experienced Managers using the
17 scheduling as a tool of discipline?
18 A. No.
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20 Q. But you knew your set pattern, anyway?
21 A. Yes.
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23 Q. So it would not affect you?
24 A. No. I have not heard -- none of my friends who are
25 crew members have ever complained to me about it, never
26 said: "I am not getting enough hours", or, "I am getting
27 too many."
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29 Q. Did you ever attend any rap sessions?
30 A. No, I have never.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are normally held late in the day, as
33 I understand it?
34 A. Yes. But even before I was breakfast Manager, I never
35 ever went to any.
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37 MR. MORRIS: Did you ever read the rap session notes posted on
38 the notice board?
39 A. Not every one, but I usually glance through them, yes.
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41 Q. So you are aware that there has been a wide range of
42 complaints contained in those notes?
43 A. Well, I have read the file that I had, yes, so I am
44 aware of it, yes.
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46 Q. Would you say those crew members that do make complaints
47 are generally frivolous or they are serious about -----
48 A. I would say if they went to the rap session and
49 complained, they would be serious about them, yes, or they
50 would not .....
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52 Q. You said in paragraph 9: "The system sometimes breaks down,
53 for example, when crew members are sick, fail to turn up
54 for a shift or when a number of experienced crew return to
55 college or university and new crew have to be trained." It
56 is at those points, is it, that the scheduling system comes
57 under particular pressure?
58 A. Yes, it is when it is more difficult, yes.
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60 Q. You say you have no recollection of ever having worked more
