Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 04


     
     1        A.  About that, yes.
     2
     3   Q.   About that, right.  Would it be fair to say on average that
     4        there would be two of them away per week?
     5        A.  Probably fair to say that there may be.  I would advise
     6        the Manager, or, if I was the Manager myself, advise the
     7        Manager doing the schedule, perhaps, to build that in.  Two
     8        people away on holidays would certainly be a wise move to
     9        make anyway.
    10
    11   Q.   Right.  If you add up the total of the hours, the number of
    12        hours, worked to be done according to the schedule?
    13        A.  Right.
    14
    15   Q.   It comes to 1,170, plus you have just added an extra 19
    16        through the Saturday and the Sunday?
    17        A.  Right.
    18
    19   Q.   Which I have not obviously added in?
    20        A.  I have not been able to add the figures up, so I would
    21        have to be guided by you, certainly.
    22
    23   Q.   Anyone can check them if they want to.  I have been fairly
    24        careful in adding them up.  28 people working full-time at
    25        35 hours a week, and you are saying that it was more common
    26        for them to work 39 hours a week, would come to 980 hours
    27        which then, with the addition of your 19, would leave
    28        around about 210 working hours to be shared out between the
    29        part-time employees, in which case they would be lucky if
    30        they got eight hours each per week.  It must be, must it
    31        not, that you actually had a lot of people on the books
    32        that were not working every week?
    33        A.  That is why I was at pains yesterday, I think I asked
    34        you about three times, to ensure that you did mean these
    35        were people working crew stations.  If I might explain to
    36        you how the system works, perhaps, then I can give you an
    37        idea how I come to the 100 in my own mind?
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you should, yes.
    40        A.  The best way I can approach that is if I was going to
    41        be speaking to you as a new Manager doing the schedule,
    42        looking at your hiring requirements.  A first premise is to
    43        take Monday to Friday and just for argument sake, let us
    44        say that your full-timers will only work Monday to Friday
    45        and I will give them the weekend off, just to start off
    46        with.  What you would do then is to see the maximum number
    47        of people for the day shift and the maximum number of
    48        people for the night shift.  So in this case 14 and 12 is
    49        the 28 -- I think you mentioned that figure as well.  That
    50        is 28 people full-time. 
    51 
    52        I would then look at Saturday and Sunday and say again, for 
    53        simplicity sake, let us assume they have been worked by
    54        part-timers, I would take the 25 and the 12 to give me 37
    55        and add on the 15, and that gives me about 52 people.
    56
    57   Q.   Sorry?
    58        A.  So, take 25 available Saturday lunch-time, 12 available
    59        in the evening, 15 for the Sunday, would give me 52
    60        part-time people and 28 full-time.  That is first base, so

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