Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 76


     
     1        which is an historical account of the crew's salary
     2        increases from 1983 to 1992 in tabular form.  Do you see
     3        that?
     4        A.  Yes.
     5
     6   Q.   Just for the sake of example, look at "provincial" which is
     7        the bottom table, please?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   Start in June 1988.  What I want you to notice is the
    11        following.  I will do them laterally, if I may,
    12        horizontally.  For all three periods with all three shifts
    13        in 1988 there was uniform increase of 10p over the previous
    14        year I think; is that right?
    15        A.  Yes.
    16
    17   Q.   The next year however they varied.  The day shift got an
    18        increase of 18p, the evening shift an increase of 13p and
    19        the night shift an increase of only 8p?
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   Next year, 1990, the day shift got 22p on the previous
    23        year, evening shift got 27p on the previous year and so did
    24        the night shift.  The next year, 1991, was when the maximum
    25        rate I think was introduced and at any rate when the
    26        premium shift and the evening shift got the same, and there
    27        was, as Ms. Steel pointed out to you, a rise of 30p each
    28        for the day and the evening shifts and 10p for the premium
    29        shift to bring it up to the same as the evening shift.
    30        What I wonder is whether you can explain how it is for
    31        those years 1989 to 1991 those rises are, if I may put it
    32        like this, so chaotic.  That is how it looks to the
    33        untutored eye?
    34        A.  At this point I think I would only be probably
    35        hazarding guesses.  I do not know whether Mr. Nicholson
    36        gave evidence on this, but I think they would have been
    37        dealing with keeping, if I remember how the tables would
    38        look, the relationships between the bands and the different
    39        positions.  That would have been why the increases will be
    40        have been applied in particular ways in relation to the
    41        Wages Council increase.  Yes, it is coming to me now.  I am
    42        sorry, I am getting to point where I am tired.  It is to do
    43        with the Wages Council awarded and it would be applying it
    44        then across.  I am sure that is how it was done, so
    45        applying that percentage across and that would be why you
    46        would have different rates resulting.
    47
    48   Q.   I see.  One final question then on this question of an
    49        apparent flattening out of the entitlement of the people
    50        who do the night shift.  I think you said not many people 
    51        actually do work, never did work, and still do not work 
    52        that premium shift.  Have you any idea, roughly speaking, 
    53        what proportion it is of the workforce that does that night
    54        shift from 11 in the evening until 7 in the morning? Take a
    55        restaurant of say 50 crew members, how many people on
    56        average would be doing the night shift assuming it is not
    57        one of those few restaurants that remain open to the public
    58        all night long?
    59        A.  I was going to say about 5 per cent and that would
    60        therefore be about 2 or 3 people, would it not?

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