Day 119 - 02 May 95 - Page 30
1 Officers. On their visits to the store they would examine
2 the clock cards of the store to ensure correct compliance
3 with the regulations.
4
5 Q. In this case they failed to ---
6 A. Well, I do not know about this case.
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8 Q. -- (indecipherable) them. So who examines the time sheets,
9 who would examine those?
10 A. The Manager, the Supervisor, the Senior Supervisor --
11 he existed in those days -- the Office Manager and the
12 Field Personnel Manager.
13
14 Q. Just say, for example, because obviously a manager is not
15 going to put themselves in trouble by admitting that they
16 are scheduling people for illegal hours, how would the
17 Supervisor check or people above the level of Manager check
18 to see that everything was being done properly?
19 A. He would read the clock cards.
20
21 Q. So, is that part of the supervisor's ---
22 A. Oh, yes.
23
24 Q. -- regular, systematic job description, is it? Sorry, part
25 of their ------
26 A. It is part of his regular responsibilities.
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28 Q. What, the Supervisor would come into every store under
29 their responsibility and check every single under 18
30 year-old's time schedule to check there were no breaches,
31 would they?
32 A. His responsibility is to ensure they are not; how he
33 does that, how he meets that responsibility is a matter for
34 himself, but it is his responsibility to do it. Similarly,
35 we would expect the Senior Supervisor to carry out checks;
36 similarly, we would expect the Office Manager to carry out
37 checks and, certainly, it would be on the list, on the
38 Field Service Personnel Officer's audit. Let me explain.
39 I used to have -----
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I interrupt you there because I wonder if
42 we are not making rather heavy weather of this. If a young
43 woman who was known to the manager to be under 18 worked
44 after midnight on three successive days, he should realise
45 that?
46 A. Absolutely.
47
48 Q. He should realise she should not be doing it?
49 A. That is right.
50
51 Q. He should not be allowing her to do it?
52 A. That is right.
53
54 Q. If two other young employees at the same branch over the
55 same period of about a week or just under were not allowed
56 an 11 hour break between shifts in a 24-hour period, the
57 manager should realise that?
58 A. Absolutely.
59
60 Q. And not allow it to happen?
