Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 72
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2 Q. Starting at 11 in the morning it goes 14, 22, 25, 24, 20,
3 25, 20, 18, 16 and 11, that is a Saturday -- sorry, that is
4 a Friday in August '94; do those figures seem adequate for
5 a Friday?
6 A. They would.
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8 Q. Perhaps one ought to look at one day in May '94 -- sorry to
9 go backwards -- to 561. I have got the right one -- I hope
10 that I have; this is May 1994. The document is dated the
11 15th; that means the figures relate to Saturday the 14th
12 May 1994. Again, look at the figures from, let us say, 12
13 noon through to four in the afternoon in the middle two
14 columns; have you got those, 28, 26, 27, 28, 31?
15 A. Yes.
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17 Q. For a Saturday in May, middle of May, do those figures seem
18 adequate or not?
19 A. They do.
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21 Q. Yes. Can I ask you this, for Bath which, as we all know,
22 is a popular place for tourists to visit, is there a
23 difference in the busyness of the store as between May and
24 August?
25 A. There is; there is an increase in volume that would
26 occur.
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28 Q. There is?
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. Finally, then this -- I can do this, I hope, without
32 reference to any documents -- provided people will accept
33 what I say: it was put to you, you remember, by looking at
34 the schedules one could see that, for example, Jane
35 Girdlestone had in May 1994 been scheduled for, I think it
36 was, seven days on the trot, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th,
37 9th and 10th. Do you remember Mr. Morris asking you about
38 that?
39 A. I do.
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41 Q. Perhaps you will take it from me that when one looks at the
42 clock card file, one finds that, in fact, she did not work
43 those seven days; she did not work on the 4th or the 10th,
44 which means that she worked five days in a row and not
45 seven. My question is -- one can do it again and again and
46 see that the schedules do not always correspond with the
47 hours actually worked -- from your experience, what are the
48 sort of reasons why people do not actually work the hours
49 or the days for which they have been scheduled. I am not
50 expecting you to comment on that particular example.
51 A. The person may, you know, request additional time off,
52 or they actually may not be in the restaurant or, you know,
53 due to other circumstances, them being ill or personal
54 circumstances.
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56 Q. Take this as a hypothetical example, because unless you can
57 remember the particular case, you cannot actually give
58 evidence about it: is it possible that Jane Girdlestone
59 had originally said: "Well, I would like to work for those
60 seven days on the trot"?
