Day 179 - 30 Oct 95 - Page 38
1 Q. Are you also suggesting that people who had worked more
2 than three weeks, maybe it might have been two months
3 during the summer holidays, were given ordinary performance
4 reviews which they were then failed and sacked on the spot?
5 A. No.
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7 Q. No.
8 A. There were occasions that I can remember people being
9 put back on to probation and then sacked.
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11 Q. Put back on to probation?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. That would have been a constructive dismissal, would it
15 not?
16 A. Well, possibly, I would not know.
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18 Q. You would not know. Are you willing to give us any names
19 of people to whom that happened?
20 A. There was a girl I can remember called Annette Reeves.
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22 Q. So she was taken on, she passed her probation and then she
23 was put back on probation?
24 A. And then sacked.
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26 Q. Who did this?
27 A. I am not sure, possibly Beth Chapman.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the surname?
30 A. Chapman, C-H-A-P-M-A-N.
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32 Q. Beth Chapman?
33 A. Yes. Annette was very upset about it.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: If it happened, Mr. Gibney, I have no doubt she
36 was. Accidents, Mr. Gibney: I think what you tell us is
37 that very few accidents went in the book, only if they were
38 serious; is that right?
39 A. That is right, yes.
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41 Q. You told us that you had one burn where you had a sort of
42 bag of cream which you put your hand in?
43 A. Yes, that is right.
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45 Q. Could I ask you, please, kindly to get from the shelf
46 behind you a pink volume with a XIII on the back, please?
47 It will be called -----
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is right in front of you now.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: Towards the back of it, not right at the back,
52 there is a tab 57L.
53 A. 57?
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55 Q. L for London. I hope that is a Colchester Accident Book,
56 is it?
57 A. Yes, it is, yes.
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59 Q. It is. I am afraid the page numbering is rather difficult,
60 but on the first page past the cover, second line, we see
