Day 167 - 02 Oct 95 - Page 57
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So, your recollection is until about the
2 middle of 1994 it would be the two or three sheets per
3 week?
4 A. That is right. I cannot give an exact date because
5 I cannot remember exactly when we changed over. It was
6 some time during 1994.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Maybe by comparing one of those weekly schedules or
9 comparing -- if we had, say, six months of schedules,
10 weekly schedules, and we had, say, two weeks of time sheets
11 we could see, just from those two weeks, roughly how much
12 they diverted from the schedules like a general snap shot
13 ----
14 A. You would be able to do that, bearing in mind if we
15 actually had the schedules, we definitely have the time
16 sheets but we might not specifically have the schedules; we
17 are not required to keep them. We only keep them because
18 it gives us an idea of what kind of sales we were
19 projecting from the previous year and what kind of crew
20 levels we had, and they aid with the following year.
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22 Q. You did say you kept schedules for 18 months. You said
23 that in your statement.
24 A. That is right. We keep them between 12 to 18 months.
25 But there is no requirement for us to keep them. We keep
26 them purely as an aid for the following year, whereas the
27 clock cards we have to keep and so we do keep them.
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29 Q. But you knew you were going to be giving evidence and there
30 is a dispute over schedules, so you would not have got rid
31 of anything that might have been used as evidence, would
32 you?
33 A. No.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He has known he is going to be giving
36 evidence, according to his statement, since about 11th
37 September. It may have been earlier, but not for very
38 long.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, he was ----
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He was not one of the original statements.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: No, he was activated when the Defendants told us
45 on the 31st August, I think it was, that Mr. Logan was
46 coming to ....
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48 MR. MORRIS: Just something I just, reading an extract from the
49 Management and Crew Scheduling Programme at the very end:
50 It does say -- I do not think it is necessary for everybody
51 to get it out -- the last paragraph: "Reports are in J and
52 K, which are print schedule by employee reports, print
53 Managers' report and print statistics must be filed
54 together and retained for legal reasons". Do you know what
55 the "print schedule by employee report" is?
56 A. Yes. It is the report you get out from the computer
57 which would tell you what that employee will be scheduled
58 for the following week.
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60 Q. For each individual person or for the whole store?
