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.
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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.
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15 Q. Would the Head Office in London be aware of it?
16 A. No.
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18 Q. They would not be aware of it?
19 A. No.
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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.
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35 MS. STEEL: What action would then be taken?
36 A. Hire some more people, perhaps.
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38 Q. That would be crew that were working those hours sometimes
39 if you are taking on more crew then?
40 A. Sorry?
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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.
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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;
