Day 167 - 02 Oct 95 - Page 63
1 A. No, it would be -- you would be able to find that out
2 by adding them all up and when they got their payslip they
3 would get a total on there, but for the end of each two
4 week period there would be, like, a running total of what
5 they worked because that would be the length of the pay
6 period we would get a report.
7
8 Q. That would be for each person?
9 A. It would do, yes.
10
11 Q. How many pages long would that document be?
12 A. About probably double the normal, so perhaps 18 pages.
13
14 Q. 18 pages per fortnight?
15 A. Per fortnight, about 20 pages, perhaps, yes.
16
17 Q. Was that for just about the number of hours they had worked
18 or other information as well?
19 A. It would give us the information on what hours they had
20 worked that pay period in each category, so regular
21 evenings and premium hours, it would tell us what pay rate
22 they were paid for each hour. It would then give you a sub
23 total of the amount they had earned for, say, the regular
24 hours, and if it included any bank holiday pay or
25 miscellaneous pay.
26
27 Q. Right, and the crew would be spread over the whole of that
28 18 or 20 pages?
29 A. Yes. Every hour it would include Floor Managers and
30 maintenance workers, almost every hourly paid employee.
31
32 Q. That is since the computer system has come in, is it?
33 A. Since 1990 or 1991, yes, maybe 1989, yes, since we have
34 had the Husky Hunter system. We had the system at least
35 five years, I think. I do not recall exactly when it came
36 in.
37
38 Q. How long were those records kept for?
39 A. I do not think we actually needed to keep them because
40 we keep the individual day's clock-cards. So what you
41 generally do is you use it as a reference point. If the
42 crew member, for instance, on -- because the crew members
43 do not receive their payslips until Thursday afternoon, you
44 will get a report out at the end of the pay period on the
45 Saturday night. So, if a crew member came to you and asked
46 you between Sunday/Monday: "How much have I earned?" you
47 would be able to tell them. But we do not actually have a
48 separate file for those pieces of paper.
49
50 Q. Are they not used in the compilation of the records that we
51 have seen elsewhere in this case, about how many people in
52 any given store are working more than 78 hours in a
53 fortnight or 96 hours in a fortnight?
54 A. No. The computer would be able to tell you that but it
55 would come off on a separate report. You would get a crew
56 with zero hours report, which would tell who did not work
57 at all, and you would get a report saying whoever worked
58 over 39 hours a week.
59
60 Q. So get a report saying the names of crew who did not work
