Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 73
1 Q. Yes?
2 A. Out of all his shifts, 31 were past 7 p.m., out of 47,
3 which I made 66 per cent; and that would be the time
4 I would consider -- when I was a crew member, I did not,
5 you know, when I was a full-timer, but when I was part-time
6 I used to do closes only, but when I was a full-time crew
7 member, doing shifts past 7 p.m., you know, they were the
8 shifts you did not want to be doing because you wanted to
9 be out.
10
11 Then I checked the schedules, without the schedules that
12 I had done with him, because I made an agreement with him
13 at the time that I could not get him off Saturday nights
14 because I just did not have anybody else at the time to do
15 them. When I took over the schedule, I found we were very
16 short of people and I was not sure of people's
17 availabilities. So I knew that he could do Saturday
18 nights, and he was one of only a few people who could. So
19 I made an agreement with him that he did Saturday nights if
20 I gave him less night shifts for the rest of the week.
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22 Then I worked out, if you took my schedules out -- which
23 I assumed were the four I have put those two lines between
24 -- if you take all the other shifts, 17 out of 23 of those
25 occasions he worked past 7 p.m., and that was 74 per cent
26 of his shifts. So, to me, I would consider that 74 per
27 cent of his shifts are unsocial.
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29 MR. MORRIS: The actual percentage of your shifts alone would
30 have been much less than the 66 per cent, to bring that
31 percentage down -- if you look at your figures?
32 A. Yes. I made an agreement with him I was going to try
33 and let him finish before 7 p.m. on some shifts and try and
34 give him some opens, just because he, you know, he did a
35 lot of closes and he had had enough.
36
37 Q. OK. I do not think I have any more questions on that. The
38 only other question I have got is just on the first file,
39 page 38, tab 2, and it is just the largest paragraph in the
40 middle there, the second to last two sentences, where it
41 says: "Some stock has been transported from other
42 restaurants contrary to Company standards. Mr. Logan did
43 not have a car and was never asked to do this."
44
45 Were you aware, or was the store aware that this was
46 against Company standards to do this?
47 A. Definitely, because we used to do it, and then in -- I
48 am trying to remember the dates again -- some time in 1994
49 we were asked to make a list of companies that had frozen
50 vans, that could transport stuff in a freezer compartment,
51 because we were notified that by law that was what we
52 should have been doing all along, and if we ever needed to
53 transfer stock then we must use a freezer, one of these
54 vans that had a freezer compartment in it. But I never
55 knew one to be used, because you are talking about a couple
56 of hundred quid. It was far easier to bung it in the back
57 of a taxi. So, before, they knew full well it was against
58 -- you should not be transferring frozen stock in a taxi
59 or in somebody's car; and even afterwards, when they -- we
60 were basically made to make a list of companies in our area
