Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 19
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: At the bottom it has: "Reduced crew
3 turnover to less than 220 per cent". Do you know what it
4 was running at at the time?
5 A. Offhand, I should imagine round about the 250, 260 per
6 cent. It tended to run at that type of figure.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Why was turnover so high at -----
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not ask that again. We have had an
11 answer to it about 20 minutes ago.
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13 MR. MORRIS: Yes, sorry, page 65. I do not know if I need to
14 ask anything about this really. Could you just sum up the
15 situation on page 65?
16 A. At this time we had actually had a change in
17 Supervisor. Mark Davies had been promoted. New
18 Supervisor was Neil Skehel. This relates to an incident
19 when one of my Assistant Managers was unable to account
20 for loss in the safe of £87. Basically, what he is
21 stating here is that a change in procedures that were
22 already in place to make sure that it did not actually
23 happen again.
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25 Q. But it was not your fault?
26 A. It was not -- it was something that happened on the
27 shift run by one of my other managers. It is just laying
28 down new procedures to be put in place.
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30 Q. Then page 66, this seems to be the same date as the day
31 you gave your resignation letter, but this one is not
32 signed. What is this piece of paper on page 66? Have
33 you ever seen it before?
34 A. The first time I saw it was when I opened the mail
35 that you sent me with this in, so I was quite surprised
36 when I found it in there. I had no knowledge of it; I had
37 never seen it before that date. It also relates to
38 performance reviews that I had never received. On the
39 date in question -----
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41 Q. Sorry, which performance reviews have you not received?
42 A. It said one in May and one on July 17th. I have no
43 knowledge of either of those. In fact, July 17th was a
44 day I was on holiday, because I gave in my notice after
45 two weeks holiday which was 18th. It is here telling me
46 that I had a review on a day when I was actually on
47 holiday.
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49 Q. So, as far as you know, this letter was never sent to you
50 or given to you?
51 A. I have never seen this letter or the reviews that it
52 relates to.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It has not been signed, so .....
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56 MR. MORRIS: Did Neil Skehel ever do a performance review with
57 you?
58 A. No.
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60 Q. Never?
