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1 one individual or two individuals.
2
3 Q. So, are you saying that the rap sessions can be ignored
4 because there is not enough people there?
5 A. No. I am saying that two individuals may have made the
6 comment at the group of the people that were there.
7
8 Q. Do you remember the Company investigating complaints about
9 breaks?
10 A. No, I do not.
11
12 Q. So, the Company never bothered to try and find out whether
13 it was just one or two individuals who were having this
14 problem or whether it was most of the people working at the
15 store?
16 A. I do not remember any investigation, you know,
17 following this rap session report.
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19 Q. Following any of the rap session reports?
20 A. I do not remember any of those, no.
21
22 Q. If we perhaps look at some of the clock card files just for
23 one Saturday in August 1993; that is in file 2, tab 2,
24 starting on page 310, which is a Saturday when I believe
25 there were particular complaints about breaks. Have you
26 found the page?
27 A. I have got page 310 in front of me.
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29 Q. Right. Do you see the fourth person down, Tilley,
30 Matthew Tilley, he started at seven in the morning and went
31 for his break at 11 minutes past eight, back to work at
32 four minutes to nine, and no break until -- well, no break
33 until he finished at three o'clock.
34 A. I can see the individual, yes.
35
36 Q. And the next one. So that is six hours without a break
37 there. That would be illegal; and there is no break
38 between the hours of 11.30 and 2.30?
39 A. There is no break, yes. This information would be, so
40 far as I can see, correct.
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42 Q. Then if we look at the next person, Stephen Clarkson,
43 started at 12 minutes past 10, went on his break at four
44 minutes past 11, came back on at 34 minutes past 11, and
45 then no more breaks until he finishes at one minute past
46 three. So, again, there is no break there of 45 minutes
47 between half past 11 and half past 2?
48 A. The information, as far as I can see, as I say, in
49 front of me, is correct.
50
51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do we know which day that is; does it say
52 anywhere the day of the week?
53
54 MS. STEEL: It is a Saturday, 8th August.
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56 THE WITNESS: It would have been the 7th, because the time
57 printed is 0.41, which would have been the following day.
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59 MS. STEEL: I see. So it is 7th August?
60 A. Yes, it is.
