Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 40
1 A. Can I just say about the barometers area, to carry on
2 with that? We would not ask questions about the ones that
3 are in there -- I will not repeat them -- if we did not
4 want to know the answers; not all of which are entirely
5 favourable. You can see that.
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7 MR. MORRIS: I will come on to that. You do not want to know
8 the answers about how people feel about low pay, safety or
9 pressure of work, do you?
10 A. We want to know about what people feel about working
11 for the Company in a whole range of areas which are
12 outlined here.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us pause there. By 2 o'clock I think the
15 most useful approach is just to think over the next hour of
16 two or three questions which you think it would be useful
17 to pose which are not posed, the actual questions. Then
18 ask Ms. Mead when we come back what she thinks of the
19 usefulness or otherwise. But when you have an answer,
20 unless it has some obvious inconsistency in it, I suggest
21 you leave it there and, at the end of the day, we will see
22 what all the other answers are and what I make of
23 Ms. Mead's answer.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Before we break -- we are not sure if we will
26 finish today -- it was just that it was relevant to looking
27 at the other documents that we have got; if we were pretty
28 sure we would finish, whether it would be worth having an
29 extra 20 minutes or something, but we cannot guarantee
30 finishing today.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Quite frankly, I would not ask for an extra
33 quarter of an hour now to have a dip into the New Earnings
34 Survey, if only because I think you might end up doing
35 yourself a disservice. If I were you, if you have the loan
36 of that one for a short period, if Barlows are prepared to
37 let you have it, I would go away and look at it at your
38 leisure and use it for comment rather than further
39 questions.
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41 So, try to finish today if you can, if only because it is
42 unproductive to come back tomorrow for a short period if
43 you can avoid it. If you cannot finish today, there we
44 are; do your best to.
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46 (Luncheon Adjournment)
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48 MR. MORRIS: Going to the opinion survey, there are no
49 questions, for example: "I do not get enough wages for the
50 work I do", that was not felt to be a useful question?
51 A. I do not think we have ever actually considered that
52 question precisely, but I think there are areas which cover
53 pay. But, no, there is not a question such as you describe
54 there.
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56 Q. There is nothing that covers pay fundamentally, though, is
57 there, about wage rates being too low?
58 A. No, there is not.
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60 Q. There is nothing in terms of wages that deals with not
