Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 57
1 really, the amount they earned divided by how many hours,
2 whatever. I am trying to think now how we used do it. It
3 is a very simple calculation, but the actual -- that amount
4 is on every single cash sheet. It is written on every
5 single cash sheet because it is a track of how much people
6 are earning.
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8 Q. Right.
9 A. The average rate in our store, I remember, for the last
10 year I was there, on the closes I did, which was probably
11 one or two a week, it did not -- I do not remember it going
12 up. It was always a relatively constant thing, but that
13 information is very easily obtained, I think, just from
14 looking at the cash sheets.
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16 Q. I was not aware that document existed. Maybe that could be
17 a formal application that would save -----
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do -- do not make an
20 informal formal application now -- is you go home and think
21 about it. Think about some specimen times and restaurants
22 and then you can raise the matter. I can see what, if
23 anything, Mr. Rampton has to say about it and what, if any,
24 further discovery of documentation, if available, are
25 there. But what we cannot have that is quite apparent is
26 discovery of, if they are available, all the cash sheets of
27 all the restaurants since 1985 or something. So, I want
28 you to go away, like you did, do you remember, when we were
29 considering Bath documents anyway ---
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31 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- and suggest what a reasonable approach to
34 that would be. Make a note of it.
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36 MR. MORRIS: Yes. (To the witness): Just brief questions about
37 the audit. We have actually been through them; we do not
38 need to go through them again. How seriously were audits
39 taken or have you any comments about store audits -- we
40 have a number of documents here which you have looked at --
41 in general?
42 A. I would say that the ones done from Head Office were a
43 fairly serious thing, but I do believe you had notification
44 of when they were going to happen, or you certainly had
45 some indication, or the Store Manager was giving a sly
46 phone call, because we seemed to -- suddenly everything
47 seemed to get moving and then we would have a store audit.
48 But in-store audits were, I do not know, they were, you
49 know, they were -- I would not say not taken seriously, but
50 they were not as serious as out of store audits, the ones
51 done by Head Office. You have got a -- where is it, the
52 first audit in here on page 159 ---
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54 Q. This is in tab 9?
55 A. -- tab 9, was done by Rianna Easton. She was a -- she
56 is a Floor Manager so .....
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which page is that?
59 A. 159, tab 9.
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