Day 116 - 26 Apr 95 - Page 11
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2 Q. 48 hours a week was the legal maximum?
3 A. Was the legal maximum for young people under 18.
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5 Q. What about things like complaints, grievances, disciplinary
6 procedures, matters of that kind, did that fall within your
7 remit?
8 A. There is a disciplinary procedure and I was at the end
9 of the appeal ---
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11 Q. What about grievance procedures ---
12 A. -- line.
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14 Q. -- because that is different, that is the other side of the
15 coin?
16 A. Yes, the other side of the coin. We had an open goal
17 policy; if anyone wanted to come and refer a grievance to
18 me, I would listen to it, but they had their channels of
19 communication.
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21 Q. What about contact, if any, with trade unions? Was that
22 something which fell within your remit?
23 A. I was contacted once, I think, by a trade union. It
24 would come to me.
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26 Q. Mr. Nicholson, can I ask you to get yellow volume X called
27 Employment?
28 A. Yes.
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30 Q. I am going to pass up a chart which is headed: "Operations
31 Hierarchy Chart, Salaried and Hourly Paid", is that what it
32 says?
33 A. Yes.
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35 Q. Could you put that, please, behind your statement, your
36 first statement, in this case which you will find at tab 1
37 of that volume X? Can you keep that chart open in front of
38 it?
39 A. Yes.
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41 Q. First of all, is it what it says it is?
42 A. It is.
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44 Q. It says: "Salaried and Hourly Paid". Will you please draw
45 for us a notional line where it is "hourly paid" stops and
46 "salaried" begins on that sheet?
47 A. Between Junior Business Manager and Floor Manager.
48 Floor Manager is the senior hourly paid worker. Junior
49 Business Manager is, as the title suggests, the most junior
50 salaried person in the company.
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52 Q. So the fact that the Floor Manager comes above the next
53 four in a line means that he would generally be paid more
54 than they would?
55 A. Indeed.
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57 Q. His hourly rate would be higher?
58 A. Indeed.
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60 Q. Would those four, Lobby Host, Training Squad, Night Closer
