Day 206 - 22 Jan 96 - Page 45
1 crew's hours have been docked illegitimately?
2 A. Not that I can say, no.
3
4 Q. Is it something that you have ever -- apart from
5 Mr. Richards, who you say you have never seen do it, and
6 you said, by implication, you have never done it yourself
7 -- have you ever seen any other Manager doing that?
8 A. No. In any restaurant I have ever worked in, I have
9 never seen that occur.
10
11 Q. How many restaurants have you worked in, apart from Bath?
12 A. I have worked in the Sutton Coldfield branch twice.
13 I have worked in Coventry, Leicester Eastgates, Aylesbury,
14 Leicester Belmont Leas (?) Restaurant, and the Bath
15 restaurant, Brislington and the Swindon restaurants.
16
17 Q. In an average week, how many hours would you work as a
18 First Assistant?
19 A. Anywhere between 45 to 55, on average.
20
21 Q. And, as you have said, at all different times of the day?
22 A. Yes, that is correct.
23
24 Q. Are the adjustment audit reports accessible to the crew if
25 they should want to check that the hours on the clock card
26 sheets are what they have actually worked?
27 A. That is right. They are kept in a file which is along
28 with the rest of the clock card files, which is printed off
29 on a daily basis, and then they are filed away monthly.
30 But they are kept right next to the crew request book,
31 which the crew have ready access to, to write their
32 requests for the schedule.
33
34 Q. Do they actually look and see whether they have been paid
35 for the hours that they have worked?
36 A. Normally, when the Managers perform a close, they will
37 run the pay period summary report at the end of the
38 evening, and the crew may take a glance through on the
39 shift at that time, the hours they have worked for the
40 period.
41
42 Q. Do you have payroll surgeries at Bath, or did you have?
43 A. We have on occasions, yes.
44
45 Q. Have you attended them?
46 A. I have not personally attended them, but I have been
47 going through a period of when they may have been due to be
48 held.
49
50 Q. Working the hours you do and at the times you do, you must,
51 I suppose, see virtually every member of the crew in the
52 course of a week or a fortnight or a month?
53 A. Virtually, yes, with the exception of maybe sometimes a
54 Saturday.
55
56 Q. Over a period of about two months, you would see virtually
57 everybody, I suppose?
58 A. Yes.
59
60 Q. Has any member of crew ever complained to you that his or
