Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 59


     
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     2   Q.   Especially if they on a low number of hours.  Does the
     3        store have a pool of people which it tries to call in to
     4        fill in the schedules?
     5        A.  It has people who are available to work, but it is not
     6        so much a pool.  Generally people's hours are more regular;
     7        even if they are a few hours per week they tend to be more
     8        regular.
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I ask you, from your own experience
    11        anyway or your higher management experience, if that helps
    12        you, what proportion of people on the payroll of a
    13        particular restaurant will not come in for at least an hour
    14        or two every week unless they are on holiday or they have
    15        study leave?
    16        A.  Probably about 10 per cent as those figures showed.
    17        There would be a handful of people in any restaurant who
    18        might have reasons not to be at work in any particular
    19        week.
    20
    21   Q.   So about the percentage which appeared on the "no hours"
    22        line?
    23        A.  I think so with the various reasons that might occur.
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    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will take the five-minute break now.  What
    26        I want you to do, Mr. Morris, the papers which are in the
    27        pink volumes, as I understand it, have been available for
    28        sometime in the volumes.  The papers which are A to H, when
    29        were they produced?
    30
    31   MR. RAMPTON:  Most of them were sent on Thursday.  I think there
    32        were one or two sheets sent on Friday.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is understandable, in my view, that
    35        certainly so far as the sheets A to H are concerned you
    36        might find yourself in some difficulty, although you may
    37        sit down and read and look at them and some are readily
    38        understandable and others need a bit of explanation, what
    39        I am going to do is to take the five-minute break now and
    40        if you want a few more minutes you can tell Mr. Riley.
    41        I want you to sit down and think what you can productively
    42        do before a quarter past 4 today, that is on the matters
    43        which really are not covered by the A to H, and I would
    44        like you then to get on with that cross-examination.  If,
    45        in fact, the remainder of your cross-examination really
    46        touches on the matters A to H, I want you to give me a
    47        candid answer as to whether you need more time having heard
    48        Ms. Mead's evidence this morning before you cross-examine
    49        her on those.  Do you understand what I am saying to you?
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, I understand. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Because there may be matters of overall
    54        principle you want to ask Ms. Mead about.  I would not have
    55        thought they would take very long.  When we come to the
    56        question of the figures I do not want to deprive you of the
    57        opportunity to ask on these documents, but you may find
    58        that really there is not a lot to ask about the documents
    59        and figures, save one or two points where you want an
    60        elaboration or you want to ask a question like the one you

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