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1 recollection that they were paid -- there were evening
2 rates, and so on ---?
3 A. Yes.
4
5 Q. -- depending on the hour during the day. But is it your
6 recollection also that if you worked more than so many
7 hours in a week, then you were also paid a higher rate,
8 something like time and a quarter; or what is your
9 recollection?
10 A. I really cannot remember to that detail.
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12 MR. MORRIS: Right. That would not have been your
13 responsibility at that time?
14 A. No.
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16 Q. No. So, if the wages inspector had asked any questions
17 about the detailed calculation of overtime and whether it
18 was fitting into the Wages Council, they would have had to
19 ask somebody else whose area of responsibility that was?
20 A. Yes.
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22 Q. When you were with him, generally, you were the person who
23 was assigned to accompanying him around, were you?
24 A. That is right.
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26 MS. STEEL: But you did say you did not stay with him all the
27 time, and if he was trying to get information about, for
28 example, overtime, specific calculations to do with
29 overtime, somebody else would be with him rather than you?
30 A. We had an open plan office, so he was never far away;
31 he was always within eyesight.
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33 Q. But that could be 30 feet away, or something like that?
34 A. No. The office was not that big.
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36 Q. How big?
37 A. I cannot remember, but he would be within speaking
38 distance.
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40 MR. MORRIS: Were you eavesdropping on every word he said
41 during -----
42 A. No, absolutely not. It was not necessary. He had a
43 job to do and so did I.
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45 MS. STEEL: You would be getting on with your job at the same
46 time as he was talking to somebody else?
47 A. I would hope so.
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49 MR. MORRIS: He had to check holiday pay, he had to check tax,
50 he had to different times of employees, unsocial hours; he
51 had a whole range of things to check, did he not?
52 A. He did not have to check the tax calculation, no. That
53 was not what he was there for. He was there to calculate
54 the gross pay as opposed to the net pay.
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56 Q. Within that gross pay, he had to check every variable?
57 A. Absolutely.
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59 Q. So, the amount he would have spent on overtime might have
60 been actually very small, because that is only one of the
