Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 73


     
     1   Q.   Yes?
     2        A.  Out of all his shifts, 31 were past 7 p.m., out of 47,
     3        which I made 66 per cent; and that would be the time
     4        I would consider -- when I was a crew member, I did not,
     5        you know, when I was a full-timer, but when I was part-time
     6        I used to do closes only, but when I was a full-time crew
     7        member, doing shifts past 7 p.m., you know, they were the
     8        shifts you did not want to be doing because you wanted to
     9        be out.
    10
    11        Then I checked the schedules, without the schedules that
    12        I had done with him, because I made an agreement with him
    13        at the time that I could not get him off Saturday nights
    14        because I just did not have anybody else at the time to do
    15        them.  When I took over the schedule, I found we were very
    16        short of people and I was not sure of people's
    17        availabilities.  So I knew that he could do Saturday
    18        nights, and he was one of only a few people who could.  So
    19        I made an agreement with him that he did Saturday nights if
    20        I gave him less night shifts for the rest of the week.
    21
    22        Then I worked out, if you took my schedules out -- which
    23        I assumed were the four I have put those two lines between
    24        -- if you take all the other shifts, 17 out of 23 of those
    25        occasions he worked past 7 p.m., and that was 74 per cent
    26        of his shifts.  So, to me, I would consider that 74 per
    27        cent of his shifts are unsocial.
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  The actual percentage of your shifts alone would
    30        have been much less than the 66 per cent, to bring that
    31        percentage down -- if you look at your figures?
    32        A.  Yes.  I made an agreement with him I was going to try
    33        and let him finish before 7 p.m. on some shifts and try and
    34        give him some opens, just because he, you know, he did a
    35        lot of closes and he had had enough.
    36
    37   Q.   OK.  I do not think I have any more questions on that.  The
    38        only other question I have got is just on the first file,
    39        page 38, tab 2, and it is just the largest paragraph in the
    40        middle there, the second to last two sentences, where it
    41        says: "Some stock has been transported from other
    42        restaurants contrary to Company standards.  Mr. Logan did
    43        not have a car and was never asked to do this."
    44
    45        Were you aware, or was the store aware that this was
    46        against Company standards to do this?
    47        A.  Definitely, because we used to do it, and then in -- I
    48        am trying to remember the dates again -- some time in 1994
    49        we were asked to make a list of companies that had frozen
    50        vans, that could transport stuff in a freezer compartment, 
    51        because we were notified that by law that was what we 
    52        should have been doing all along, and if we ever needed to 
    53        transfer stock then we must use a freezer, one of these
    54        vans that had a freezer compartment in it.  But I never
    55        knew one to be used, because you are talking about a couple
    56        of hundred quid.  It was far easier to bung it in the back
    57        of a taxi.  So, before, they knew full well it was against
    58        -- you should not be transferring frozen stock in a taxi
    59        or in somebody's car; and even afterwards, when they -- we
    60        were basically made to make a list of companies in our area

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