Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 64
1 to how the law was, and so there is the 39 hour cut off.
2 We often used 35 hours ourselves internally as another sort
3 of benchmark, but the 39 hour break off point of the report
4 that you saw would be used.
5
6 MS. STEEL: But if it is just on hours, what is the situation
7 when somebody who generally works 20 hours is asked for a
8 couple of weeks to work 39 hours or something like that, do
9 they suddenly get reclassified as full-time?
10 A. Well, it depends; the reason I asked about this is
11 because I do not know for what purpose you were thinking
12 that we needed to know, because, do you see what I mean,
13 you would need to know it maybe for some reasons but very
14 often it would not be relevant. So I think I would need to
15 know more about the context.
16
17 Q. When you give statistics to the media, for example, about
18 how many of your crew are full-time and how many are
19 part-time, is that just done from whatever hours people
20 were working for the past couple of weeks, or do you
21 actually categorise people into full-time and part-time at
22 the time they are taken on and, unless they change their
23 job, that stays the same ---
24 A. No.
25
26 Q. -- no matter how many hours they do?
27 A. Well, I think I am really all at sea with this point,
28 because I think I would need to know what it is we provided
29 that you wanted me to comment on so I would then have to
30 find out how the information is derived, when you are
31 talking about information we give to the media, as to how
32 we had done that. I do not think I can answer something as
33 general as that.
34
35 The point about part-time and full-time, I have tried to
36 explain. We take it from the hours, to the best of my
37 knowledge. If there is another way that it is being done
38 before, I do not know about that, unless I could be helped
39 with the specifics?
40
41 Q. I am not particularly interested in what you say to the
42 media. The purpose of asking is that full-time workers
43 have more employment rights, or had more employments
44 rights, and they had those employment rights sooner than
45 part-time workers, so do you -- I think you have answered
46 anyway. It is basically entirely done on the hours that
47 are worked and -----
48 A. Which is also -- the point about employment rights --
49 do you mean things like unfair dismissal?
50
51 Q. Yes.
52 A. Well, those are based on hours that are worked anyway
53 so you have to look at each case.
54
55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are special requirements anyway, are
56 they not?
57 A. Yes.
58
59 Q. I assume that the statute gives a definition for purposes
60 of various rights?
