Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 65


     
     1        not -- you were not disadvantaged by students coming in
     2        working two or three weeks during term time and still
     3        getting the same amount of holiday pay.  So, it definitely
     4        reinforced the idea of having stability on our payroll.
     5
     6   MS. STEEL:   You mentioned a scenario where students were
     7        working for you who were at Leicester Polytechnic?
     8        A.  Right.
     9
    10   Q.   They were working for you during term time?
    11        A.  Right.
    12
    13   Q.   Presumably that was, what, on Saturdays and maybe one
    14        evening a week?
    15        A.  About that, yes.
    16
    17   Q.   Through the term?
    18        A.  Whenever they were available usually, and that was part
    19        of the discussions when they came back.  There were,
    20        obviously, exams in those situations, but they or my
    21        assistants would sit down with them and work out what
    22        fitted in with their schedule and what fitted into our
    23        requirements.  But, generally, a Saturday and a Wednesday
    24        night or a week day night would be all they required, so it
    25        did not interfere with studies.
    26
    27   Q.   Then you talked about during the holidays ---
    28        A.  Right.
    29
    30   Q.   -- they might want to go and work at the Glasgow branch or
    31        something like that?
    32        A.  OK, right.
    33
    34   Q.   So for the last week in term they are working at your store
    35         ---
    36        A.  Right.
    37
    38   Q.   -- then they move to the Glasgow store the following week?
    39        A.  Right.
    40
    41   Q.   When they took their file with them, did you fill out a
    42        leaving code or did they just carry on although it was
    43        another store?
    44        A.  No, right, we would -- if they were moving to another
    45        store, I think we could transfer them and just simply write
    46        it into the payroll "transferred to Glasgow".   If they
    47        subsequently did not tell us they were moving to another
    48        store and a Manager phoned me, then I could tell him or her
    49        what their details were and arrange for the file to go up
    50        there. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, but I think at the moment what Ms. Steel 
    53        is getting at is when they would come on and off the list
    54        for turnover purposes.  As I understand it, if someone left
    55        to go home ---
    56        A.  Yes.
    57
    58   Q.   -- unless some special arrangement was made that you would
    59        transfer them on to another payroll, they would count as
    60        someone who had left?

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