Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 59


     
     1        A.  No.  Would they be classified as full-time, you are
     2        going to ask me?  They would be part-time people working
     3        one day a week, a Saturday or a Sunday.  So they may only
     4        work eight hours.  We would not classify those people as
     5        full-time employees.
     6
     7   Q.   You said in your statement in paragraph 6 on page 228, that
     8        it is probably fair to say that if a store on occasion did
     9        not get its scheduling correct, employees would
    10        occasionally have to work approximately 50 hours in a
    11        week.  Would Head Office be aware of this, or the Regional
    12        Office in Birmingham?
    13        A.  Through my offices, yes.
    14
    15   Q.   Would the Head Office in London be aware of it?
    16        A.  No.
    17
    18   Q.   They would not be aware of it?
    19        A.  No.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How would the Regional Office become aware if
    22        occasionally employees would have to work about 50 hours a
    23        week?
    24        A.  Well, part of those -- the visiting process, as
    25        I mentioned in my earlier evidence, the Senior Supervisor
    26        would visit the restaurant.  Part of the things they would
    27        look at could well be the staffing in the restaurant, and
    28        so they would do a sort of more macro scale examination, so
    29        to speak, of the restaurant than I would do.  They would
    30        not go into too fine a detail, but they could certainly
    31        look at the schedule and see which people were perhaps
    32        working too many, and they could make the necessary advice
    33        to me using their experience.
    34
    35   MS. STEEL:  What action would then be taken?
    36        A.  Hire some more people, perhaps.
    37
    38   Q.   That would be crew that were working those hours sometimes
    39        if you are taking on more crew then?
    40        A.  Sorry?
    41
    42   Q.   Working more than 50 hours in a week sometimes?
    43        A.  No.  It is my experience that it would generally be the
    44        Floor Managers, because if you had, for example, a shift
    45        running -- a Floor Manager who was running a shift and he
    46        was scheduled from four o'clock, then obviously the unknown
    47        quantity is what time they finished because that is not
    48        really in their hands in terms of it is when the crew
    49        manage to shut the store, clean it up, so on and so forth.
    50        So that is the movable feast in all of this.  If they were 
    51        working ten until six, that is an eight hour shift.  If 
    52        they are working four till whenever they shut, and they 
    53        shut at 11 o'clock, there are seven hours, and maybe a
    54        couple of hours to close gives them nine.  So, invariably,
    55        if that happened, those would be the people who would be
    56        working those extra hours.
    57
    58   Q.   It is not just the Managers that clean up the store though;
    59        not just the Floor Managers that would clean up the store?
    60        A.  No.  They would not necessarily clean up the store;

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