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                                                                  DAY 216
 
                                            KATHERINE HARRISON, Examined:
 
 
 
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have, but it has a very blank patch in the
     3        middle, and I would like to read it again.
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     5   MS. STEEL:  "This was in spite of the fact I would have
     6        preferred to keep paid breaks."
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     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    10   MS. STEEL:  Is that OK now?  Right.
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    12        "At all stores I have worked, you have been pressurised to
    13        finish your break early if the store was busy.  No one was
    14        allowed to finish a break in their busy periods, and some
    15        crew members did not get a break at all on Saturday
    16        shifts.  Also, at some stores, your weekly shifts could be
    17        changed without notifying you.  If you ever questioned
    18        this, the management would say that you must have read the
    19        schedule wrongly.
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    21        "At the Romford store in 1983, a Second Assistant,
    22        Graham Woods, fell with two pickle buckets of hot
    23        shortening and was very badly burned.  This was because
    24        there was no proper urn to discard the shortening into,
    25        making it much safer.
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    27        "On two occasions at Colchester my holiday pay was delayed
    28        by a month each time.  This happened to other crew members;
    29        also receiving holiday pay when not requesting it.
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    31        "At Birmingham High Street, I left because of unfair
    32        bonuses which were paid out to Managers' favourite crew
    33        members."
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    35        Is that your signature at the bottom?
    36        A.  Yes.
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    38   Q.   We have not got a date on this.  I do not know, do you
    39        remember?
    40        A.  22nd -- on here, it says 22nd July 1993.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you read the last line and a half again?
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    44   MS. STEEL:   The last line and a half?
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    48   MS. STEEL:  "....bonuses which were paid out to Managers'
    49        favourite crew members".
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    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes. 
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    53   MS. STEEL:  (To the witness)  Are you happy for this statement
    54        to be taken as your evidence?
    55        A.  Yes.
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    57   Q.   If we move on to your second statement; I will not read
    58        first part, because I have done that already.
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    60        "I generally worked 30 to 35 hours a week, sometimes 40 or
 
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