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.
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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.
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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.
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25 MS. STEEL: That does not mean it should not be done, though.
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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.
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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.
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56 MS. STEEL: You can just say "no".
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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.
