Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 21


     
     1        40 to 50, 51 to 60 and more than 61 hours in a week.  The
     2        first question, Miss Mead, which certainly I do not know
     3        the answer to, how is it that 3,097 people are recorded as
     4        having worked the 0 hours?
     5        A.  They will just be people who, for whatever reason, were
     6        not working in a given payroll week, you know, they just
     7        were not scheduled, did not want to work, needed time off
     8        or whatever.  They are current employees.
     9
    10   Q.   Their names come through, nonetheless, do they?
    11        A.  Yes, they are still a current employee; they just have
    12        not worked any hours during that week.
    13
    14   Q.   That accounts for nearly 11 per cent of the total.  If you
    15        look at those figures, I can tell you that something like
    16        67 per cent of the workforce worked for 20 hours or less on
    17        average in a week.  Do you see that?
    18        A.  Yes.
    19
    20   Q.   That a further 27 per cent work between 20 and 39 hours in
    21        a week?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   The percentage of people who worked for more than 39 hours
    25        a week was something just under six per cent; is that
    26        right?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   I can also tell you that the figures are broadly similar
    30        for the other three columns we have there.  In the middle
    31        column 36 per cent worked between 20 and 39 and 57 per cent
    32        for 20 or less.  Again, do you get these figures, these
    33        sorts of figures, on a regular basis?
    34        A.  Yes, they are produced quarterly.
    35
    36   Q.   The last column -- my Lord, I have rounded these
    37        percentages -- gives in those same categories 66 per cent
    38        and 29 per cent.  Ms. Mead, without showering the court
    39        with a great mountain of documents, can you tell us, do
    40        these sorts of proportions, roughly speaking, over 60 per
    41        cent for 20 hours or less and between 28 and 30 per cent,
    42        or whatever it is, between 20 and 39 hours, bear up year
    43        in, year out?
    44        A.  Yes, they do pretty much so, yes.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The very precise percentages may not matter,
    47        but you have included the ones who did not clock any hours
    48        at all in your under 20, have you?
    49
    50   MR. RAMPTON:  I have, yes. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know where they are likely to be more 
    53        part-time workers rather than full-time?
    54        A.  I do not know; it could be part.
    55
    56   Q.   There might be few full-time ones who are on holiday ---
    57        A.  Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   -- or something of that kind?  But, generally speaking, are
    60        they likely to be part-time workers who have not clocked

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