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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