Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 46
1 eventually come to making submissions you can make up your
2 core bundles for that topic by topic, so you can get
3 straight to the ones concerned.
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5 MR. MORRIS: If I may say what may be the obvious, that we do
6 not have any backup administration.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I was not criticising you for not having done
9 something; it was that I thought there was certain
10 rebeliousness in your tone when speaking about it. That
11 has all blown over now, so let us carry on.
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13 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Stein, this tells us both the numbers and
14 percentages of the hourly paid workforce that have worked
15 for lengths of time during their continuous service. Do
16 you see that?
17 A. Yes, I do.
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19 Q. There is a group that have worked for between a year and
20 two years, for example?
21 A. Yes.
22
23 Q. There are some people who have worked for as long as 10
24 years?
25 A. Yes.
26
27 Q. Is that kind of information available to you in the United
28 States?
29 A. No, it is not.
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31 Q. Is that to do with the computer that you mentioned a moment
32 ago, the program?
33 A. Yes, it is. I can pull off of there average hours of
34 everybody but you cannot pull it off in the detail that
35 appears here.
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37 Q. Do you know anything about computers?
38 A. I know some things about them. I am nowhere close to
39 an expert.
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41 Q. Do you have any idea how long it might take to write
42 programs to produce this kind of information in the United
43 States?
44 A. That is not just my knowledge of computers. I work
45 with our Information Services people, frankly, because
46 I would like to have more data. I have made requests such
47 as what you are asking me about, and I have been told given
48 the age of our system and these thousand programs that
49 interact with it, that it would take a substantial sum of
50 money and minimum of about a year for them to do what would
51 need to be done.
52
53 Q. Thank you. You said you could, however, give a figure for
54 the average number hours per week worked by the hourly paid
55 people in the United States?
56 A. Yes, I can.
57
58 Q. Can you please give us that figure?
59 A. It is 23 hours a week and some fraction, but it is 23
60 hours.
