Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 68
1 prospect; it got dark early anyway and maybe they wanted a
2 bit of money for Christmas and, query, what they do in the
3 next term. When it got to Easter they want to be out,
4 hopefully, in the better weather enjoying themselves and
5 they have exams to worry about as well?
6 A. Certainly.
7
8 Q. So they might be less inclined to want to work anywhere?
9 A. Well, that was my experience when I went to
10 university. That is true.
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12 MR. MORRIS: Going on to women with children that you have
13 referred to; people working very few hours. Let us say you
14 have some people that work six to 10 hours, or something, a
15 week on average. You have quite a few like that, yes?
16 A. Quite a few -- how do you?
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18 Q. A significant percentage.
19 A. Who would work six to 10?
20
21 Q. It is not a trick question. I think we have some figures
22 somewhere that have the percentages.
23 A. No, but six to 10 hours would mainly mean somebody who
24 was just working on a Saturday, for example.
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26 Q. OK.
27 A. I am just trying to get that right in my head.
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29 Q. Saturdays, you would have to have a lot of people who just
30 work Saturdays because that is the big day, yes?
31 A. Yes.
32
33 Q. Would you have double the people on Saturday that you would
34 have on other days?
35 A. We could do for that shift.
36
37 Q. What, more than double sometimes?
38 A. Well, if it was a Monday or a Tuesday at lunch-time, we
39 may have on 10 or a dozen and 24 or 25 on a Saturday
40 lunch-time, sure, I would say, yes, it could be double.
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42 Q. Do people who work just Saturdays say to you: "Oh, it is
43 too busy, I am fed up. Do not call me again", quite
44 regularly?
45 A. No. There are probably one or two occasions where we
46 employed somebody for a Saturday, they work one day and
47 they did not come back because they did not like the job --
48 I think that happens in every profession -- but nobody
49 would regularly do it because it would be pointless on both
50 sides, from their point as well as mine if they were
51 phoning up every Saturday.
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53 Q. So, I mean, I am trying to identify when the part-timers
54 worked.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just ask this because I wonder whether
57 there was necessarily any scheme to things. Mr. Morris,
58 I think, is assuming that there would necessarily be a
59 pattern. I can see that Saturday would be a heavy day for
60 part-timers because they might not be working on the
