Day 191 - 24 Nov 95 - Page 07
1 they efficient?
2 A. They were efficient; they got jobs done.
3
4 Q. When you made the complaint about the clock cards, to whom
5 did you make it?
6 A. We complained to Mr. O'Brien.
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8 Q. How did Mr. Eagle come into it, do you know?
9 A. As far as I know, he was called in; I do not know who
10 by.
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12 Q. He sorted it out, did he not? Do you remember also that he
13 insisted that the under-18s should have a different
14 coloured name badge from the over-18s: red plastic badges
15 for the under-18s and black plastic for the over-18s? Do
16 you remember that?
17 A. No. The only badges that we had were green badges for
18 the new people that had started; it was supposed to be for
19 the first month you were there; and then you had a yellow
20 badge.
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22 Q. Everybody had a badge with their name on?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. The under-18s badge was a red badge?
26 A. No. Everybody had a green badge or a yellow badge.
27
28 Q. You do not remember one of those Dymotape strips in
29 different colours?
30 A. They were all different colours.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton, I have heard about the badges;
33 and it had not occurred to me until you asked a question a
34 moment ago that they might be named badges, rather than
35 some other badge. They are named badges, are they?
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37 MR. RAMPTON: They are named badges, yes, my Lord. The workers
38 each have their name on a badge.
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40 (To the witness): You feel, I think, that you were
41 unfairly dismissed by Mr. Eagle; is that right? Have
42 I understood it correctly?
43 A. Yes.
44
45 Q. Is it not the fact that -- you had a motor bike at the
46 time, did you not?
47 A. Yes.
48
49 Q. -- that you were actually caught putting a box of meat on
50 to your motor bike?
51 A. No.
52
53 Q. This stuff about the union and Australia was never said by
54 Mr. Eagle, was it? You got that from someone else.
55 A. Yes, it was said.
56
57 Q. It is an afterthought, is it not?
58 A. No.
59
60 Q. Why did you not bring a case in an industrial tribunal for
