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1 the rationale was of having a basic minimum wage applicable
2 to workers of 21 or over only and not to the sort of ---
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4 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 year-olds.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: The government it was that disapplied it for
9 people under 21.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. One can dream up all sorts of
12 rationales that it was to persuade employers to take on
13 school leavers and people like that. But I never did
14 actually have any evidence about it, did I?
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16 MR. RAMPTON: The concession I make in relation to overtime is,
17 I hope, only a minor one. I make it in relation to the
18 system which operated until the Wages Act 1986 came into
19 force. But I do rely heavily on what McDonald's actually
20 did, if fairness be the approach -- actually did -- as
21 opposed to what they had to do, following the passage of
22 that Act. In other words, from June 1987 onwards.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I remember you dealt with that.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: It is all in here, yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be in Mr. Atkinson's other bundle.
29 But you remember I did an exercise on Siamak Alimi's pay?
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31 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I do.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is the antidote to that in your bundle?
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35 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, it is. It is in the Colchester section of
36 Volume 5.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Could someone give me the reference, so that
39 I make sure I do not miss it in due course?
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41 MR. RAMPTON: They have all been done and they have all been
42 done on what I conceive to be the correct basis. My Lord,
43 it is in the Colchester section, which is section 1 of
44 Volume 5 at (c).
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46 MR. MORRIS: I have numbered the pages -- I have probably
47 missed one or two out -- but I have got it as page 50 in
48 that bundle.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you.
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52 MR. RAMPTON: It is behind tab C.
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54 MR. MORRIS: In that tab, I mean.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: At the front of the Alimi calculations is a
57 summary of the results and then each one of the
58 calculations for all the available fortnights is set out on
59 a separate sheet.
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