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     1        in a store level and on a regional personnel investigation
     2        level.  An investigation was undertaken by Operations
     3        Personnel in the area, the Area Supervisor and the
     4        Operations Manager, and they replied through Jane Jarvis,
     5        who was the Personnel Manager at the time.
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, if we can get that down, please.
     8
     9   MR. ATKINSON:   My Lord, I have no further questions on that
    10        particular document.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The only question which occurs to me is in
    13        respect of any of those what, if any, documentation there
    14        might be and how easy or difficult it might be to get.
    15
    16   MR. ATKINSON:   Do you want me to ask?
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sure it is going to crop up.
    19
    20   MR. ATKINSON:   (To the witness) You heard what his Lordship has
    21        said on that.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just look down the list.
    24        A.  If there was a problem where they complained to the
    25        Area Personnel Department or Human Resources Department, as
    26        it is now, they would have a record of that on file.
    27
    28   MR. ATKINSON:   So the Human Resources Department would be ----
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not know whether that is going to be
    31        realistic because people can have, if they do have
    32        something they are concerned about, it is one thing to --
    33        it may be one thing to have a bit of a beef in store; it
    34        may be another entirely to go to the area of personnel or
    35        human resources.  I was less interested whether they
    36        complained, but what sort of documents there might be which
    37        might show -- you got John Gore mistreated by scheduling --
    38        to what extent they might show it at all.
    39
    40   MR. ATKINSON:   Are there likely to be any documents in the
    41        store, for example?
    42        A.  There would be very few from that.  The only document
    43        that would really relate to that would, perhaps, be the
    44        clock card reports.  We do keep them.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What do they consist of?
    47        A.  They consist of a sheet which tells you when you clock
    48        in -- when each employee clocks in and out each day and it
    49        will say how much they have been paid for that day, whether
    50        they have had a break. 
    51 
    52   Q.   How far back would they go? 
    53        A.  Five, six, seven years.
    54
    55   MR. ATKINSON:   My Lord, is it going to help you if I go through
    56        the list of these people and just ask Mr. Richards what
    57        sort of documents might be available on the particular
    58        allegations?
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it might, but I cannot anticipate

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