Day 179 - 30 Oct 95 - Page 37


     
     1        A.  It stayed in the vats until it was too bad to use.
     2
     3   Q.   Its shelf life was reduced by not being filtered?
     4        A.  Yes, it was, yes.
     5
     6   Q.   Do you not think that would have been a good deal more
     7        costly than having the machine repaired or replaced?
     8        A.  Probably in the long run, yes.
     9
    10   Q.   Do you remember that a firm called Croda came on a regular
    11        basis ---
    12        A.  I do not remember that firm, no.
    13
    14   Q.   -- to the store and took away the used oil?
    15        A.  I never saw the people.  I know that someone did pick
    16        it up in the drums, yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Do you know that they paid for it?
    19        A.  Yes, I think I did.
    20
    21   Q.   They would not have taken it, would they, if it had been
    22        unfiltered?
    23        A.  They would not, no.  It was in an oil drum.
    24
    25   Q.   You tell us in, not your supplementary statement, but in
    26        your additional evidence, Mr. Gibney, that there was a
    27        practice at the end of the busy periods, the school
    28        holidays, of reducing the staff levels by getting rid of
    29        people for unjust reasons; is that right?
    30        A.  If they were not considered to work fast enough,
    31        whereas at the beginning of the holidays they would have
    32        been fine.
    33
    34   Q.   You would say that was unjust and unfair, I expect, would
    35        you not?
    36        A.  I think so, yes.
    37
    38   Q.   Yes.  You said that was done by PRs?
    39        A.  That is right, yes.
    40
    41   Q.   You cannot get rid of somebody by doing a performance
    42        review unless it is the one which comes at the end of their
    43        three week probationary period, can you?
    44        A.  You can extend probation -- that quite often happened
    45         -- for another three weeks.
    46
    47   Q.   How many probationers would you have, three week
    48        probationers, in the store at the end of the school
    49        holidays?
    50        A.  A lot, I should think. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Three or four, I suggest? 
    53        A.  No, more than that.
    54
    55   Q.   Three week probationers, whose probation just coincided
    56        with the end of the school holiday and you could then say:
    57         "Oh, well, you have failed your probation; you are not to
    58        come back"?
    59        A.  Several.
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