Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 71
1 that day. I have heard of them going on. They used to
2 happen on a Saturday very occasionally, but they were, I do
3 not know, just a very, very rare thing.
4
5 Q. Right.
6 A. Once every, I do not know, six months, I suppose.
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8 Q. Right.
9 A. It was when there was, you know, a lot of people
10 complained about their pay; you would be forced to have a
11 payroll surgery, if you see what I mean?
12
13 Q. Right.
14 A. If they were just, you know, an overwhelming number of
15 people and it could be dealt with person by person. It was
16 also an easy way for, I think, Managers to not resolve --
17 if someone had not been paid and they were complaining
18 about it, it used to be an easy way of resolving the
19 situation by saying: "Well, there is a payroll surgery on
20 Saturday; go and see them there", so you did not have to
21 sort it out, but a lot of these things just never happened.
22
23 Q. OK.
24 A. That is why I say, you know, there would be a poster up
25 saying there was going to be one happening and it just did
26 not happen.
27
28 Q. I am just checking through to see; I am trying to cut them
29 out.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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33 MR. MORRIS: I have got three questions: Do you know what
34 excess hours are or excess hours sheets? If you look at --
35 just take one at random here -- page 530 in tab 9 of the
36 second volume?
37 A. 500 and?
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 30.
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41 MR. MORRIS: 30.
42 A. Right, OK.
43
44 Q. We have a lot of sheets disclosed; they seem to be daily
45 sheets?
46 A. I tried to figure this out and I could only -- no,
47 I cannot say exactly what they mean. I do not really know.
48
49 Q. It does not matter.
50 A. It used to be a bad thing, but I did not know anybody
51 who ever really knew what it meant. I know that if it says
52 Dave Watson, 18.5 or excess hours, then I assume that would
53 mean he has done -----
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not make an assumption because we have
56 reason to believe it appears in either an Act of Parliament
57 or some regulations and if it is important we can find out.
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59 MR. MORRIS: OK. There was one other scheduling matter I wanted
60 to bring up, it was the odd sheet that you wrote out based
