Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 33


     
     1        be three, crew at maximum.
     2
     3   Q.   Take the Floor Managers first, if we may:  Why is it or was
     4        it that the Floor Managers tended to work 39 or more than
     5        39 hours in a week?
     6        A.  Generally, with the Floor Managers -- on any given
     7        shift you would like to have a salaried Manager and a Floor
     8        Manager on together -- so generally the Floor Managers were
     9        scheduled a five-day week.  If two of those shifts, for
    10        instance, were night shifts, then that would mean two x
    11        nine hour shifts plus three x eight hours shift, so that
    12        would mean they would work more than 39 hours.  The idea of
    13        them working with the salaried Manager was that (a) they
    14        were aiding the salaried Manager and (b) it was a sort of
    15        shadowing effect, if you like, so that they were learning
    16        the job of Assistant Manager.
    17
    18   Q.   Were they sometimes then or perhaps often, I do not know,
    19        people who wanted to go on and be salaried Managers?
    20        A.  Most of them wanted to be salaried managers at some
    21        point.
    22
    23   Q.   I think you said one or two ordinary crew members also on
    24        average during a week would work more than 39 hours, yes?
    25        A.  Sometimes, yes.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  He said one to three actually.
    28
    29   MR. RAMPTON:  One to three.  "One or two" is an old form of
    30        English colloquialism.  One to three.  Mr. Davis, to what
    31        extent, if any, were those people who worked more than 39
    32        hours -- I am talking now about the crew members ---
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   -- required by you to do so and to what extent did they do
    36        it because they wanted to?
    37        A.  None of them were forced to work more than 39 hours.
    38
    39   Q.   Sorry?
    40        A.  None of them were forced to work more than 39 hours.
    41        Most -- it would be more of the case that people would
    42        request to do it or people who particularly wanted to work
    43        night shifts.  So, for instance, if they did three night
    44        shifts a work, started at 4.00 and finished at 1.00, for
    45        instance, on average ------
    46
    47   Q.   Started at 4.00 in the afternoon and finished at 1.00 in
    48        the morning; is that right?
    49        A.  Yes, that would be three x nine hour shifts and then
    50        maybe they did two x eight hour shifts on top of that.  So, 
    51        that is the mechanism whereby they might work over 39.  The 
    52        idea was not to have people working over 39 hours. 
    53        However, if it meant that they went 40 on occasions, then
    54        I did not see that as a problem.
    55
    56   Q.   I understand you were in court -- I was not, Mr. Davis but
    57        I have read the transcript -- when Mr. Alemi's time sheets
    58        or some of them were gone through?
    59        A.  Yes, certainly.
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