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
