Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 19

     
     1        got 70 part-timers altogether, and I forget how many you
     2        knocked off those for ----
     3        A.  About 7.
     4
     5   MS. STEEL:  8.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  About 8.  So you have 52 left, and they are
     8        therefore working on average ----
     9
    10   MS. STEEL:  62 left.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  62?
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They are working on average right across the
    17        board about five and a half hours a week?
    18        A.  Right.  Well, yes.
    19
    20   Q.   And what Ms. Steel -- this is not the way she approached it
         -- is saying it sounds as if something has gone wrong
    22        somewhere?
    23        A.  Well, no.  I mean, that is where I would again go back
    24        that if I was looking for those part-timers only to work
    25        either a Saturday or a Sunday, then six hours on that
    26        Saturday and Sunday is probably not too far off my
    27        recollection.  So the 25 people working a six hour shift,
    28        there are going balances obviously, a five hour shift
    29        versus an eight hour shift; again, depending upon their
    30        availability.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:  Some of them working 20 hour shifts as well, though?
    33        A.  No, no.  That is what I am saying, to break it up into
    34        such clear bands, either 39 or whatever, I am saying that
    35        in terms of six hours availability, in order to make sure
    36        that I am fairly comfortable with these levels it would
    37        probably mean, retrospectively, that I could easily account
    38        for a hundred on the payroll, allowing for the individual
    39        availabilities and some people being away.
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us go a bit further.  If you take off the
    42        850 full-time hours you have 340 left?
    43        A.  Right, on a Saturday and Sunday.
    44
    45   Q.   What?
    46        A.  You said the Saturday and Sunday hours.
    47
    48   Q.   No, this is the whole week.  You have 1,190 hours in the
    49        week, if Ms. Steel's sums are right.
    50        A.  Right, OK.  Sorry, yes, adding ---- 
    51 
    52   Q.   You take off the 850 full-time hours and you have 34 ---- 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  340.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  340 part-time hours?
    57        A.  Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   Spread over 62 part-timers on your payroll?
    60        A.  Right.