Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 48
1 Q. Then they complain when pay day comes around because they
2 have not got as much money as they would have got if they
3 had worked all their scheduled hours?
4 A. No.
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6 MR. MORRIS: I am just going to move on to another scheduling
7 matter. If you open volume 2, file 2 -- I will try to do
8 this as efficiently as possible -- between pages 582 and
9 604?
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which divider is that?
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13 MR. MORRIS: It is divider 13.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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17 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Sam Mason worked, amongst other
18 complaints there might be about the times he clocked in and
19 out and had breaks and everything, eight days in a row.
20 Have you any comment to make about that?
21 A. I do not -- I have not actually totalled up the days.
22 I do not know the reason why she worked eight days in a
23 row.
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25 Q. Yes, it is Samantha, is it not?
26 A. Samantha Mason.
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28 Q. Samantha Mason, yes. In fact, on page 588 she did not have
29 any break. I will not go through all the days for Samantha
30 Mason. I think one of them we have already looked at.
31 6.8.94 -- is that one we looked at? On 6.8.94 -- sorry,
32 that was 594, page 594, Samantha Mason, she started at 7.26
33 in the morning on a Friday and worked until 4.26 in the
34 afternoon, and only got a 20 minute break in the middle.
35 Do you see that?
36 A. I can see that.
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38 Q. Does that give you some concern? You said that 7.00 was
39 like the absolute maximum; in exceptional cases someone
40 might be scheduled seven days in a row. Does that worry
41 you?
42 A. It does give me concern. I do not know the reason why
43 she worked eight days.
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45 Q. You do not know. Do you know the reason why it was
46 allowed?
47 A. No.
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49 Q. Did you say that nobody actually monitors the clock cards
50 to see if there is any -- you said that it was for the
51 Store Manager, was it not, to check that everything is OK?
52 The Store Manager does the monitoring, yes?
53 A. Yes, he is responsible for it.
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55 Q. Fair enough. If we look at a different person -- I will
56 not take you through those days, people will have to take
57 my word for it; no doubt Mr. Rampton will point out if
58 I make a mistake -- David Watts on page 593: David Watts
59 comes into the picture here between pages 593 and 616, from
60 the days 6th August 94 to 13th August 94, he worked eight
