Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 23
1 Q. In trying to understand this 0 hours, 10 per cent or 14.5
2 per cent in the previous quarter figure of people working 0
3 hours, might that be that people just did not turn up for
4 work that week when they were scheduled? That cannot be
5 all explained by -----
6
7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are you going on this? The figures are
8 all very interesting but they must be directed at some
9 point you are going to make and criticism you are going to
10 make at the end of the day. At the moment, I would tend to
11 assume that the probability is that the percentage who work
12 0 hours are people who do not work many hours a week
13 anyway, and either have not been scheduled for that week
14 because there is thought to be no need for them, or they
15 have said they do not want to work that week for some
16 reason, or albeit they are scheduled have either been
17 unwell or found something better to do with their time; all
18 that just on the balance of probabilities because it would
19 seem to be the way of world.
20
21 But do you have any knowledge of your own, from your
22 experience or even what someone has told you, for the sake
23 of getting some information, which would give a more
24 precise explanation of how the 10 or 14 per cent are made
25 up?
26 A. I am not sure I can be more precise, but, yes, it would
27 be holiday, absence for other reasons, sickness absence,
28 people who did not show up, I do not know if I have said
29 study leave -- all those sorts of different reasons which
30 if the average number of employees is about 70, then that,
31 as I said yesterday, if a handful of those people, 10
32 per cent of those people, there would quite likely be one
33 of those situations for different people in the
34 restaurants ----
35
36 Q. All you need for the 10 per cent figure of 7 of the 70 on
37 your payroll who do not work in that calendar week for some
38 reason.
39 A. It would be for those types of reasons, I would think,
40 typically. I mean, the Christmas one, the one at the end,
41 I do not know, the previous quarter, could be because it is
42 Christmas and there might be people who did not work.
43 I cannot shed much more light than that.
44
45 Q. Can I just pause in case there is any significance at the
46 end of the day? Yes, that is just for the week before the
47 quarter date, is it not?
48 A. Yes, it is.
49
50 MR. MORRIS: Then we have 27 per cent work between 20 and 39
51 hours, and six per cent over 39 hours?
52 A. Sorry, where -----
53
54 Q. Something like six per cent, five ----
55 A. Right, I have found it, yes.
56
57 Q. All right, nearly six per cent over 39 hours.
58
59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are we going to on this?
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