Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 55


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did Mr. Mills ever ask for them?
     2        A.  Ask?
     3
     4   Q.   Ask for statistics of complaints ---
     5        A.  No, never.
     6
     7   Q.  -- list of complaints.  Do you ever remember refusing or
     8        anyone in your hearing refusing to give Mr. Mills any
     9        information he asked for?
    10        A.  Never, sir, never, any more than we would have done to
    11        the DHSS or the Inland Revenue.
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  Did you ever suggest that the Company could compile
    14        statistics to make his job easier?
    15        A.  His job was easy enough.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That just seems a bizarre suggestion, to me,
    18        that any company should provide to a wages inspector, a VAT
    19        inspector or tax inspector or any information to show it
    20        had broken the law unless specifically asked for, in
    21        circumstances where the government inspector has a
    22        statutory right to ask for it.  It is just not the world
    23        I live in.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:   That does not mean it should not be done, though.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  It would make your job easier, would it not if you
    28        had statistics at that time?
    29        A.  No, I do not believe it would.  How would it make it
    30        easier?
    31
    32   Q.   Did he ever visit any of the employees that made
    33        complaints?  Did you ever note the fact that he visited
    34        employees that made complaints he?
    35        A.  Visit them as -- where would we visit them?
    36
    37   Q.   I do not know.
    38        A.  I have no idea.
    39
    40   Q.   No idea?
    41        A.  No.  That was his job.
    42
    43   Q.   Did you tell him the Company policy was not to pay overtime
    44        payments?
    45        A.  I have told you already that that really was not my
    46        job.
    47
    48   Q.   You did not tell him that?
    49        A.  I have told you already that was not my job.
    50 
    51   Q.   OK.  So you did not say to him:  "We do not pay overtime"? 
    52        A.  I would have had no reason to say that, and he had no 
    53        reason to ask me, because that was not what he was in my
    54        office for.
    55
    56   MS. STEEL:   You can just say "no".
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:  So, no, you did not ask him that.  I am not
    59        criticising you.
    60        A.  I did not ask him, and he did not ask me, no.

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