Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 51
1 A. No.
2
3 Q. Is it true that at headquarters today you get daily or more
4 regular reports from all over the country on sales, sales
5 figures? You can press a button and immediately get what
6 the current sales figures are for each store, for each
7 region, is that correct?
8 A. I am not sure. I would imagine that information is
9 available.
10
11 Q. Yes.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Daily this is?
14 A. I am not sure. I cannot say yes, sir, because I am not
15 an Information Services man.
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17 MR. MORRIS: But you imagine it would be?
18 A. I imagine all kinds of information is available to us.
19 I would not use that information. I would have no use for
20 it.
21
22 Q. No, I understand. Do you have weekly information available
23 about the hours worked by staff in any store or in any
24 region?
25 A. I would have thought that that information could be
26 retrieved from the computer. I have never had cause to
27 call for it. That is the report that I call for.
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29 Q. In the light of that answer I think if documents do exist
30 then the obligation is on the Plaintiffs to have disclose
31 them, because this is a matter of issue in the case "on a
32 weekly basis". I do not know if that can be seen as a
33 formal application for the Plaintiffs.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what the answer is? Do you know
36 what happens when the swipe card goes through, whether you
37 can ----
38 A. I can only give the answer that the Information
39 Services Director gave do me, and that is that that
40 automatically sends into the computer the time the crew
41 person clocked on the time the crew person clocked off and
42 from that ---
43
44 Q. At the end of each fortnight?
45 A. -- they compile their pay sheets.
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47 Q. It will do a calculation at the end of the fortnight?
48 A. Yes. Now I honestly believe, and I am not a computer
49 expert my Lord, but if you wanted to know weekly you could
50 could create a program that would provide you with that
51 information. I have never asked for it.
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53 Q. You must be able to do that because if someone only worked
54 three days that would be less than a week?
55 A. Yes.
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57 Q. Less than a fortnight, and presumably you could print out
58 from that something which would turn into a pay slip and he
59 would get his £20 or whatever he had earned, but the
60 difficulty is that there is a difference between being able
