Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 47
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2 Q. Problem or not, you do not remember it happening at all?
3 A. That is correct, sir.
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5 Q. Yes.
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7 MR. MORRIS: You were area supervisor, you were not the Manager.
8 The Manager presumably would know the fine details of
9 every schedule hour -- he might not remember it now
10 but----
11 A. At the time.
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13 Q. His job was to know the details of everybody. Your job, is
14 it fair to say, was to check the overall situation to make
15 sure things were basically running along smoothly?
16 A. One of the things I would look out for when I checked
17 the schedule was to ensure that when the schedule was
18 prepared that nobody had inadvertently been put down for a
19 wrong shift either past 10 or past midnight if they were
20 unable to work it because they were under 18.
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22 Q. Did you check every person every day who was under 18 to
23 ensure that never once could one person have worked past or
24 did you basically check a sample amount?
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Spot checks or total checks?
27 A. I think I mentioned earlier on part of my job was to
28 maybe take spot checks, so in terms of doing that quarterly
29 audit for the human resources requirement, I would
30 certainly take clock cards, and I think again we may well
31 have had a section on the audit which asked me to, or made
32 sure that I checked it, so then I would then pull out the
33 clock cards from those under 18 people.
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35 MR. MORRIS: Would you check everyone or would you do 25 per
36 cent?
37 A. No. I think I would check everyone because it was a
38 legal requirement. It was not just to make sure broadly;,
39 it was requirement, so not only would I do spot checks in
40 terms of coming into the restaurant either at 11 o'clock or
41 on the close, but I would certainly have had to check it as
42 part of my HR audit to be submitted quarterly and as I said
43 about an on-going basis, given the fact that it was a legal
44 requirement, I would say with a certain amount of certainty
45 I would have had to check all the under 18s because one is
46 no good: One out is all out, is it not?
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48 Q. That may be the case, yes.
49 A. I think if you had one requirement, you may well have
50 scored an F with the audit. There was not any leeway in
51 terms of "98 per cent is acceptable". I think it had to be
52 a 100 per cent or nothing otherwise the whole audit,
53 irrespective if everything else was correct, was graded an
54 F, but I would have to take advice on that again if my
55 memory is not wrong.
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57 Q. Every 3 months an audit was done. You did the audit, did
58 you?
59 A. Yes.
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