Day 119 - 02 May 95 - Page 41
1 A. No, Information Services. No, they would not keep
2 printouts for three months (sic).
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4 Q. But they would keep hard disks?
5 A. Well, Information Service Department would.
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7 Q. On those records, which I do not have in front of me now,
8 you remember we looked at them, the 96 hours one?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. And the long hours in general, because if you cast your
12 mind back to yesterday, the people that worked over 79
13 hours ---
14 A. Yes, 79 hours or more.
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16 Q. -- were -- virtually all the stores had an entry for that,
17 for 79 to 95 hours?
18 A. Yes, but they were very small.
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20 Q. Yes, but virtually all the stores had an entry?
21 A. Well I did not look at them all -----
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23 Q. No, but if we look down the page it was two, three, seven,
24 nine -----
25 A. Yes, but we do not now how many hours from that report.
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27 Q. Will you agree then that the long hours, or people working
28 over what you call rare -- the people working over 39 hours
29 did not just apply to selected very fast volume stores?
30 A. No.
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32 Q. It applied to any store? Any store could have people
33 working over 39 hours?
34 A. Yes, I consider one person in a fortnight who goes over
35 78 hours to be very small. I think the system is working.
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37 Q. Yes, but we are talking about percentages of something
38 between 4 and 6 per cent ---
39 A. Well, no ---
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41 Q. -- of staff?
42 A. You keep came up with figure, I never agreed with that
43 figure.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: I have gone through the seven pages. It comes out
46 at just over 4.6 per cent.
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48 THE WITNESS: I will accept it.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us assume it is around that sort of
51 region that would be pretty typical.
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53 MR. MORRIS: So you accept, therefore, that the people working
54 over 39 hours a week, under those figures, it could apply
55 to any store in the country; it is not just the selected
56 large volume stores?
57 A. No. In fact I would say that the probability of
58 someone having to work over 39 hours in a small restaurant,
59 with a small staff and you have no show, is greater.
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