Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 34
1 A. Yes, that one.
2
3 Q. How do the Head Office staff know about who is working over
4 39 hours in any individual week?
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do they, first of all?
7 A. Well, I am sure the supervisors on their visits -- you
8 see, supervisors -----
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10 Q. It is Head Office, you see?
11 A. Not Head Office, no. The Field Personnel officers
12 might because they visit the stores regularly and that is
13 one of the things they look at. The supervisors will
14 because they visit the stores regularly. Head Office will
15 not know until that return comes out.
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17 MS. STEEL: Right. They still will not know when that return
18 comes in because it is only fortnightly?
19 A. Fortnightly, yes.
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21 Q. So they cannot actually tell, unless people have worked
22 over 39 hours for two weeks running -----
23 A. Head office staff, no. Head Office staff have those
24 figures in front of them once a fortnight, those people at
25 Head Office who are concerned with wages.
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27 Q. Nobody is in a position at Head Office to check on who is
28 working over 39 hours each week as opposed to ---
29 A. Each fortnight.
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31 Q. -- fortnight?
32 A. No, that is right.
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34 Q. Nobody in the Head Office would know which under 18
35 year-olds were working more than 48 hours in a week, would
36 they if it was more than one week running because they only
37 get fortnightly figures again?
38 A. Yes. It is very difficult when you say "nobody at Head
39 Office" because all of the operations and supervisory staff
40 are at Head Office and they will know. When you talk about
41 -----
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43 Q. What figures do they get?
44 A. Those figures.
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46 Q. They are fortnightly figures?
47 A. But they also visit the stores and they will get
48 reports from the supervisors who visit the stores.
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50 Q. So what figures do they see when they visit the stores?
51 A. They will see the schedules.
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53 Q. So they would have to check through all the schedules by
54 hand ---
55 A. Oh -----
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57 Q. -- and compare them with the actual hours that were worked,
58 in fact, as opposed to just what the schedule -----
59 A. They probably do.
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