Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 59
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2 Q. Especially if they on a low number of hours. Does the
3 store have a pool of people which it tries to call in to
4 fill in the schedules?
5 A. It has people who are available to work, but it is not
6 so much a pool. Generally people's hours are more regular;
7 even if they are a few hours per week they tend to be more
8 regular.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I ask you, from your own experience
11 anyway or your higher management experience, if that helps
12 you, what proportion of people on the payroll of a
13 particular restaurant will not come in for at least an hour
14 or two every week unless they are on holiday or they have
15 study leave?
16 A. Probably about 10 per cent as those figures showed.
17 There would be a handful of people in any restaurant who
18 might have reasons not to be at work in any particular
19 week.
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21 Q. So about the percentage which appeared on the "no hours"
22 line?
23 A. I think so with the various reasons that might occur.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will take the five-minute break now. What
26 I want you to do, Mr. Morris, the papers which are in the
27 pink volumes, as I understand it, have been available for
28 sometime in the volumes. The papers which are A to H, when
29 were they produced?
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31 MR. RAMPTON: Most of them were sent on Thursday. I think there
32 were one or two sheets sent on Friday.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is understandable, in my view, that
35 certainly so far as the sheets A to H are concerned you
36 might find yourself in some difficulty, although you may
37 sit down and read and look at them and some are readily
38 understandable and others need a bit of explanation, what
39 I am going to do is to take the five-minute break now and
40 if you want a few more minutes you can tell Mr. Riley.
41 I want you to sit down and think what you can productively
42 do before a quarter past 4 today, that is on the matters
43 which really are not covered by the A to H, and I would
44 like you then to get on with that cross-examination. If,
45 in fact, the remainder of your cross-examination really
46 touches on the matters A to H, I want you to give me a
47 candid answer as to whether you need more time having heard
48 Ms. Mead's evidence this morning before you cross-examine
49 her on those. Do you understand what I am saying to you?
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51 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I understand.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Because there may be matters of overall
54 principle you want to ask Ms. Mead about. I would not have
55 thought they would take very long. When we come to the
56 question of the figures I do not want to deprive you of the
57 opportunity to ask on these documents, but you may find
58 that really there is not a lot to ask about the documents
59 and figures, save one or two points where you want an
60 elaboration or you want to ask a question like the one you
