Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 20


     
     1   Q.  -- hourly wage is £8 an hour ----
     2        A.  No it is not.  You are quite wrong.
     3
     4   Q.  -- when you get overtime, are you paid an extra one pound or
     5        something on top, that being the minimum wage, or are you
     6        paid extra 50 per cent?  When you are paid time and half
     7        are you paid 50 per cent on top of your hourly rate?
     8        A.  No.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You may be or you not be, you are putting
    11        what the legal obligation was.  You may be right, but
    12        I must say I would be surprised that if someone for
    13        instance paid a very generous basic hourly rate I would
    14        have thought, maybe I am wrong, that provided that for
    15        overtime they paid a rate which amounted to one and a half
    16        times the minimum hourly rate they were all right.  Let us
    17        suppose the minimum hourly rate was £4 and you were paying
    18        £10, I would have thought that provided for instance they
    19        kept paying £10, which is still considerably more than £6,
    20        they were OK, which is a different point to the one
    21        Ms. Steel was asking about, but maybe that is wrong.  It
    22        just says "the hourly rate".
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  My understanding is certainly -- am I right or am
    25        I wrong -- that the law says that overtime is paid based
    26        upon your hourly rate?
    27        A.  No.
    28
    29   Q.   Time and a half?
    30        A.  You are wrong.  Overtime is paid on the minimum rate
    31        payable.
    32
    33   Q.   Well, we will see.  Not everybody gets wage rises after
    34        three weeks, do they?
    35        A.  I suppose there are some people who do not.
    36
    37   Q.   That is right.
    38        A.  But there will not be many.
    39
    40   Q.   Well, what percentage?
    41        A.  I have no idea.
    42
    43   Q.   What percentage of staff get a nought pence pay rise when
    44        they have had their review?
    45        A.  I cannot answer that question.  There are 31,000 crew
    46        people out there.  I do not know their rates of pay are.
    47
    48   Q.   You must get information coming to Personnel headquarters
    49        about what percentage of staff are passing ----
    50        A.  No, no we do not. 
    51 
    52   Q.   You do not get that information? 
    53        A.  No, the Human Resource officers would check that when
    54        they go to the store but we do not get it sent to Head
    55        Office.
    56
    57   Q.   These Human Resources officers when they get the
    58        information they do not pass it on to Head Office?
    59        A.  They might do if they are concerned about it, but they
    60        would probably deal with it on the spot.  If they found

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