Day 302 - 18 Nov 96 - Page 25
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Less than what it was, over a two week
5 period.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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9 MR. RAMPTON: In fact, my Lord, we have analysed and will
10 present your Lordship with tables eventually. All
11 Mr. Alimi's payslips which we have covers about -----
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I mean, just while we are on it, did
14 I get the sums wrong on the particular two week period?
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16 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord, you did.
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18 MR JUSTICE BELL: You say that he was paid -----
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20 MR. RAMPTON: There were some fortnights where he is under,
21 somewhere he is over, over the period -----
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, no, I am not concerned about over the
24 period. But in particular two week periods, did I get it
25 wrong?
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27 MR. RAMPTON: The one your Lordship chose, the calculation was
28 wrong. I did not redo it, somebody else did it, and it was
29 wrong because there was an element of double counting. The
30 provisions were quite complicated.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will wait and hear about that. I just
33 want to make a note. (Pause) Yes.
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35 MR. MORRIS: And, as Mr. Rampton says, with Mr. Alimi, some
36 weeks are clearly underpaid and some-----
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If Mr. Rampton gives me calculations I will
39 look at them, obviously, and try and get to the bottom of
40 it.
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42 MR. MORRIS: Which is illegal, and it is significant because we
43 are talking about something like 25 percent of all
44 full-timers working over 39 hours a week, and because of
45 the way McDonald's calculate... We had this before, their
46 fortnightly pay is very, very difficult to monitor, so that
47 is an additional reason why policies on overtime should be
48 adhered to, because it is very hard to monitor, which I am
49 sure is deliberate, but even if it is not, it is still a
50 further-----
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I find great difficulty with that. You may
53 be right about it is not easy to track down what has
54 happened in a particular week, but I can think of all sorts
55 of perfectly good reasons why you should do it every two
56 weeks, much the most obvious being that for administrative
57 purposes, in a sense, the less frequently you pay an
58 employee and have to get everything got together the
59 better, but especially with people who are on what you
60 would say is the low rate of pay you can't make the period
