Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 32


     
     1   MISS STEEL:  Sorry.  I did not ask the question properly.  If
     2        you found someone who was working more than 39 hours a week
     3        when you were checking the records, did you just say: "Oh,
     4        it does not matter, because it is only one", and not bother
     5        to check the rest of the records?
     6        A.  No.  I would check all the records; and I would suggest
     7        then, if you would allow it, I suppose, to look at
     8        subsequent to my coming down to that area, those pay
     9        periods are there -- it does show some 73, 63, 77 -- and
    10        would suggest maybe that I had resolved it, if we can make
    11        so bold in terms of all our presumptions here.  It will
    12        show that when I left in August he was working those hours
    13        that should have been done, in terms of 63, if I divide by
    14        two, would not have incurred any problems. (sic)  So it
    15        would suggest to me that I did it, and did a good job.
    16
    17   Q.   You said in your statement, your second statement, on
    18        page 3, that there was no truth in the suggestion that crew
    19        members are habitually required to work hours different
    20        from those they have been scheduled to work.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us find it first.  The second statement?
    23
    24   MISS STEEL:  Page 3.
    25
    26   THE WITNESS:  Right, thank you.
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:   That is not true, is it?
    29        A.  The statement?
    30
    31   Q.   The statement that there is no truth in the suggestion that
    32        crew members are required to work hours different from
    33        those they have been scheduled to work is untrue, is it
    34        not?
    35        A.  No, it is not.  The key to successful scheduling is to
    36        achieve the staffing level needed for each shift, so as to
    37        ensure satisfactory levels service for our customers.
    38
    39   Q.   Yes.  I am asking you about the first sentence.  That is
    40        not true, is it?
    41        A.  You are questioning me.  I made sure that the crew
    42        members worked those hours they were scheduled for, in
    43        order to ensure satisfactory levels of service for our
    44        customers.
    45
    46   Q.   So for the three months where Mr. Alimi was regularly
    47        working more than 39 hours a week, he must have been
    48        scheduled to work more than 39 hours a week?
    49        A.  No, you cannot draw that conclusion.  You can only say
    50        in reality he may have worked those hours.  The reasons 
    51        behind him working those hours were not to do with being 
    52        scheduled to work those hours; and some of them look to me 
    53        as if they are to do with Bank Holiday pay.  I cannot
    54        remember the case.  But in terms of it not standing out,
    55        one out of 55, I would not suggest that I had scheduled him
    56        to work excessive hours.
    57
    58   Q.   So if he has not been scheduled to work excessive hours, he
    59        must be regularly being required to work hours different
    60        from those which he was scheduled to work?

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