Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 73
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes, right.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is your target?
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6 MR. MORRIS: Shall I give my game away?
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think your approach work has gone on for a
9 bit of time now, so why not have a bash at the actual
10 target?
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12 MR. MORRIS: All right then, to summarise.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have admired your foot work for a while.
15 I would just put it straight to him, and then if you are
16 not happy with the answer I am not going to say that is
17 that; you can try it again. I am not encouraging you to,
18 but why not see what the answer is first.
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20 MR. MORRIS: Some people could be on the books for a
21 considerable period of time and only work Saturdays?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. And they would not necessarily work every Saturday, would
25 they? They might work one Saturday in two, or something
26 like that?
27 A. It is my experience that if they are only available on
28 a Saturday they generally worked every Saturday.
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30 Q. So how many people -- Saturday is an important day; how
31 many people, say as an example, it could be Colchester or
32 Leicester -- say Leicester, because we have looked at
33 Leicester; we are talking about something like you would
34 need 25 people available for Saturday as opposed to 12 on a
35 Monday, or something, or Tuesday lunch time; how many
36 people -- to cover Saturday how many people would you
37 actually have available? What I am saying is if you had to
38 get 25 people, what was your pool of Saturday availability
39 to work from? Do you understand what I am saying?
40 A. Yes.
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42 Q. Of the people that just wanted to work Saturdays, say you
43 wanted to use 20 of those every Saturday, what was your
44 pool to work from?
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me put it to you. Let us imagine the
47 situation, as I understand may well have been the situation
48 in Leicester, where, putting salaried management staff on
49 one side, you have got about 25 crew; is that what you were
50 saying, or were you including salaried management?
51 A. No, that was excluding salaried managers.
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53 Q. So you have 25 crew. How many of those 25 crew, if you can
54 say -- because for all I know you do not have the foggiest
55 idea now eight years later, rather more than eight years
56 later; ten years later -- what proportion of the 25 crew
57 you find in the Leicester restaurant on a Saturday would be
58 Saturday only part-timers? Can you give any indication?
59 A. What proportion on any Saturday -- I do not think I can
60 recall a specific figure. Of the hundred I had on the
