Day 182 - 02 Nov 95 - Page 32
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3 MR. MORRIS: What are these tariff regulations?
4 A. If you see, this is the tariff regulations that are --
5 well, this is in October -----
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7 Q. 1993, yes?
8 A. Yes -- they were advised according to the prices, the
9 price, the average price -- what you call it, median price
10 -- the price level in Norway; and this is then the minimum
11 pay of any employee where there is a collective agreement.
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13 Q. So this is a tariff which is set by whom?
14 A. In negotiations between the partners in the blue
15 handbook which is the HRAF and the hotel federation.
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17 Q. So that is the standard minimum for the catering industry
18 where there is any HRAF involvement?
19 A. Yes, exactly.
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21 Q. As agreed by the employers and the HRAF?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. Right.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Can you read to me what
27 it actually says -- hotel and restaurant work, 1?
28 A. Yes.
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30 Q. And then what does it say on the line under that?
31 A. Employees under 18, the first six months in the
32 business. The first three months of practice, they earn
33 this, they earn 6,178.62 a month, which translates to 40.12
34 if you work a 35.5 hour week -- it is at the top of the
35 page, if you follow it all the way up to the top, you can
36 see there; it says 35.5 hour week; and 38.13 if it is a
37 37.5 hour week.
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39 Q. What does "taker" actually mean in Norwegian?
40 A. Well, it is HRB; that means employers -- no, employees,
41 it is arbeidstaker; it is an abbreviation.
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43 Q. It is an abbreviation for the whole word?
44 A. Yes. So that is other employees, except the ones under
45 18. So the first two rows are -----
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47 Q. What I am not understanding -- what does "erial" (?) mean?
48 A. That is means "other" -- other workers.
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50 Q. Other?
51 A. Yes.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Is "taker", then, pay?
54 A. No. That is arbeidstaker; that is an abbreviation; it
55 is missing something there.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. That means "other workers" then. If you
58 just speak the words, rather than reading them, as with all
59 Germanic languages, you actually understand a lot more than
60 you thought you would. But why do you say that the bottom
