Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 14
1 questions: "If she was still off work following the two
2 week period, I informed her mother that she would receive
3 sick pay".
4 A. Yes, sir.
5
6 Q. On what basis would the sick pay be worked out?
7 A. Technically, I do not know how it is worked out, but if
8 she was entitled to it we would put it on the computer and
9 they would work it out from Head Office.
10
11 Q. I do not want to start digging around in the other
12 documents which we have now, but was it the whole or a
13 proportion of a certain amount of pay, can you remember?
14 A. I cannot remember.
15
16 Q. The other matter I wanted to ask about is if someone was on
17 the books as a part-timer but actually had been working
18 full-time hours over, say, the few weeks before they went
19 sick ---
20 A. Yes.
21
22 Q. -- would the sick pay be calculated on a part-time or a
23 full-time basis? Do you know the answer to that?
24 A. I do not know the answer to that.
25
26 Q. Then the next sentence: "I could and would not have
27 promised that Melanie would receive full pay because
28 Melanie was a part-time worker (I think she only worked at
29 weekends) and it would have made no sense for her to
30 receive full pay in the sense of a full week's wage". But,
31 as I understand what you said a few minutes ago, you were
32 expecting her to receive full pay in the sense of a full
33 week's wage for two weeks?
34 A. Full-time for her schedule, the time she was
35 scheduled.
36
37 Q. But she would be scheduled full-time?
38 A. Yes.
39
40 Q. 35 hours or more?
41 A. Yes.
42
43 Q. She was for the next week to come and she could expect to
44 be for the week after that?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. Yes.
48
49 MS. STEEL: You said in your first statement that Mel O'Riordon
50 had a slipping accident in the wash up room; is that
51 correct?
52 A. In the back room, yes.
53
54 Q. The wash up room and the back room are the same; is that
55 right? Is that what you are saying?
56 A. Yes, we do not call it the "wash up room"; it is the
57 back room.
58
59 Q. It says "wash up room" in your statement.
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