Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 67
1 fall between one and ten hours in a week seem about right?
2 A. It is slightly high, but it could get up towards that
3 figure, I would say, with people who just came into work
4 Saturday.
5
6 Q. Of course, this is an average for the whole country so the
7 individual restaurants are bound to vary. You see the next
8 one, eleven to 20 hours, where you get 23 and a half per
9 cent, roughly speaking, that were doing between 11 and
10 I think it is 20 hours; do you see that?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. Now how does that compare with Colchester in the 1980s,
14 roughly speaking?
15 A. It seems roughly similar.
16
17 Q. Is it roughly right, is it?
18 A. It could be, yes.
19
20 Q. Then assume a different hypothesis, Mr. Davis, that my
21 recollection -- I am not saying that it was -- but my
22 recollection is right and these figures apply to the whole
23 of the quarter; that is to say, a whole three months of the
24 year, yes?
25 A. Right.
26
27 Q. Do you think that nearly 11 per cent of your workforce on
28 the payroll at Colchester did no hours for any one single
29 quarter three months at a time?
30 A. I would have been surprised if that was the case.
31
32 Q. No, you are not right. Thank you. That is all I need to
33 ask you about that document, Mr. Davis. I keep threatening
34 to sit down, but I get reminded of something else. It was
35 assumed by Mrs. Brinley-Codd that I had omitted sewage, she
36 was right, but I had not meant to do so. Do you remember
37 anything about sewage in the premises at Colchester?
38 A. Not sewage as such, but I do remember the drains
39 backing up on one occasion.
40
41 Q. The drains packing up?
42 A. Backing up.
43
44 Q. Backing up. This is an unpleasant thought -- what actually
45 came up when the drains backed up?
46 A. From Colchester there was, the toilet sewage went down
47 through a pipe and came out at the back of the restaurant,
48 and also from the kitchen there was a separate drainage
49 system whereby water from the cola tanks and the back sink,
50 and any other water that was used, went down through the
51 grease trap and met up with the pipe down from the toilet.
52 On the occasion I remember it actually backing up where it
53 came out in the kitchen, the drains blocked at the grease
54 trap bit. So it was more greasy water than anything,
55 rather than sewage on that particular occasion.
56
57 Q. What did you do about it?
58 A. First of all, it only came out just slightly in the
59 back room, which is away from any food preparation area.
60 So we just tried to mop it up and called Dyna-Rod out to
