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.
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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.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us find it first. The second statement?
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24 MISS STEEL: Page 3.
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26 THE WITNESS: Right, thank you.
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28 MS. STEEL: That is not true, is it?
29 A. The statement?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
