Day 311 - 06 Dec 96 - Page 13


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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     3   MR. MORRIS:  "Nor do"?
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     5   MR. RAMPTON: "....nor do C and D".  Then, my Lord, going on to
     6        damages, tab 4, first page, the citation from
     7        Groom v. Cassell, which is a small point, in the first line
     8        there is a redundant asterisk at the end of publication;
     9        that should just be eradicated.
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    11   MS. STEEL:   Where?
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  First line of 2.1.  Then, towards the bottom of
    14        that citation, where there are some dots between "publicity
    15        and extends", before the dots should be added the words "at
    16        the trial" and then the dots should follow, because the
    17        dots were a reference to Lee v. Hamilton, which is not
    18        needed for the sense of the text.  My Lord, I think that is
    19        it -- so far as it matters.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.  I will hand this back then, if
    22        I may.
    23
    24   MR. RAMPTON:  Can I just revert quickly to something
    25        your Lordship was asking me about on Wednesday morning and
    26        I was maybe a bit slow on the uptake?  Your Lordship was
    27        asking me about pay and conditions, and your Lordship put
    28        it to me, in effect, that was not the turnover at
    29        McDonald's so great that one was entitled to infer that
    30        there might be something wrong with the pay and conditions,
    31        to which the students coming and going or going and coming
    32        back, and mothers with children and so on, would not be a
    33        complete answer.  Can I put it this way: I completely
    34        forget, when I was answering your Lordship -- I should not
    35        have done, but I did -- what the actual figures are, first
    36        of all, for the numbers of part-timers, which is about
    37        two-thirds; and that is derived from the document E2 behind
    38        Lynne Mead's statement in volume X.  The second figure,
    39        which is equally important -- and it is when you put the
    40        two figures together that you understand the significance
    41        of them -- the second figure is that something like
    42        70 percent of the hourly paid workers are under 21.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  That is derived both from the Bath clockcard file
    47        and from evidence of the witnesses -- Mr. Jardine was
    48        certainly one of them.  That is day 155, page 59, lines 25
    49        to 29.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  All I would say briefly about that is this:  it
    54        has two consequences, both so far as turnover and pay is
    55        concerned.  It must mean that a high proportion of the
    56        hourly paid workers -- it does mean -- that they are
    57        part-timers; it must also mean that a high proportion of
    58        those part-timers must be under 21.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.

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