Day 303 - 19 Nov 96 - Page 42
1 know -- I will check.
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3 MR. MORRIS: That came into force in June 1986, the £1.99
4 provincial rate.
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6 MS. STEEL: It is pink 12, and I think it was Mr. Nicholson who
7 said that these were all the minimum rates for the company
8 between 1983 and 1992. According to that, the minimum rate
9 from June 1985 to June 1986 should have been £1.94, and Mr.
10 Alimi -- if you look at the first page of Defendants'
11 document 117 which is slightly illegible, it is either
12 £1.78 an hour or £1.88 an hour and that was in October 1985
13 -- was over 18. So there seems to be some discrepancy
14 there. Bearing in mind that most of these crew salary
15 history rates were based on the minimum wage levels, it
16 would indicate that the minimum wage would have been £1.94
17 an hour from June 1985. But taking Mr. Alimi's basic rate
18 for this fortnight of the 22.2.1986, if he worked 98.94
19 hours at a basic rate of £1.93 that would be 78 hours
20 coming to a total of ----
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you are giving me figures, unless they are
23 written down, take them slowly. 98.94?
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25 MS. STEEL: 98.94 hours at a basic rate -- well, his basic rate
26 at that time was £1.93 which is, as I have said, a penny
27 under the rate which Mr. Nicholson has in his chart; 78
28 hours at £1.93 would be £150.54, plus 20.94 hours, being
29 the balance after you have taken away the 39 hours a week
30 basic, at £2.90 an hour, which would be time and a half --
31 actually that £2.90 -- I was doing these in a real hurry
32 this afternoon.
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34 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, can I make a suggestion and it is
35 supposed to be helpful. I am going to hand in with my
36 closing speech some detailed calculations of all the Alimi
37 payslips which we think we have done on the right basis.
38 That is one area I would have thought where your Lordship
39 might say to the defendants, "My Lord, have a look at these
40 and see if you think the calculations are right. If you
41 do, then there is no problem; if you do not, give the
42 reasons why not", and pass up an alternative calculation.
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44 MS. STEEL: Actually, it is right, sorry. I take it back.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want to take the opportunity of what
47 Mr. Rampton has just suggested?
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49 MS. STEEL: I only have two examples that I have worked out at
50 the moment anyway that I was going to give you, so I can do
51 it fairly quickly. But 20.94 hours at £2.90 an hour, which
52 would be time and a half, would be another £60.73 which
53 would give you a total of £211.27 and his gross pay cheque
54 was only for £207.42.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How does that compare with the figure I did,
57 those sums I did?
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59 MS. STEEL: I cannot find the sheet of your figures, to be
60 honest.
