Day 173 - 16 Oct 95 - Page 39


     
     1        these rules are subject to discipline or dismissal."
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   Does it say on page 11, two-thirds of the way
     5        down, ".....holding unauthorised meetings on Company
     6        property"?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   If you turn over the page, on page 13, does it say in the
    10        middle of that page there are three bullet
    11        points: "Employees who have finished work should leave the
    12        premises as soon as possible" -- yes?
    13        A.  Yes, that is correct.
    14
    15   Q.  "Off duty......"
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do believe it is fair to the witness to
    18        read the introduction before you get to the bullet points.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS: "The policy on solicitation and loitering.  Due to
    21        the size of our store we ask your co-operation in carrying
    22        out the following:  Employees who have finished work should
    23        leave the premises as soon as possible."
    24
    25        Then does it say: "Off duty employees are not permitted to
    26        interfere with or disturb working employees"?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   Then it says: "Distribution by employees of literature for
    30        any purposes is prohibited on store premises"; is that
    31        correct?
    32        A.  Yes.
    33
    34   Q.   This Handbook, was it available -- was it given to every
    35        crew member who worked at the store?
    36        A.  It should have been, yes.
    37
    38   Q.   That was the policy, to give it to every crew member?
    39        A.  Yes.
    40
    41   Q.   You can put that to one side.
    42
    43   MR. RAMPTON:  I wonder whether there is a question at the end of
    44        all that?  We can all read.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  I do not think it is for the witness to say what a
    47        crew member might interpret those points to be.  We have
    48        already asked other witnesses about it.
    49
    50   MR. RAMPTON:  No, no.  This is this witness's own crew Handbook 
    51        at the time, 1979, when it is asserted that he was applying 
    52        an anti-union policy in his two restaurants in Dublin.  If 
    53        some suggestion is to be made about the wording of this
    54        crew Handbook, the purpose behind the wording must be made
    55        to this witness.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest you do -- the answer may be
    58        obvious, but ask if that would cover union literature, just
    59        you use some covering phrase like that, and then, assuming
    60        that it does, ask whether that was the purpose of having it

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