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                                                                  DAY 212
 
                                                   KIM MOFFATT, Examined:
 
 
 
     1        out or added; it is -----.
     2
     3   Q.   Take it slowly, because Ms. Steel is writing it down, and
     4        so is his Lordship.  Six months, you do not have any?
     5        A.  No.
     6
     7   Q.   Is that six calendar months, however many weeks you have
     8        worked during -----
     9        A.  So, it is basically from your start date six months
    10        forward.
    11
    12   Q.   Then, at the end of the six months, you start becoming
    13        entitled to holiday?
    14        A.  Yes, you start accumulating it.
    15
    16   Q.   You said, I think, each fortnight 8.33 per cent ---
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   -- of the pay ---
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   -- is dedicated as holiday pay; is that right?
    23        A.  Yes.  It is additional, though; it is not taken out or
    24        anything.
    25
    26   Q.   It is not a deduction?
    27        A.  No.
    28
    29   Q.   It is an additional pay?
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   So you take the gross total of the pay and you put on
    33        8.33 per cent as holiday pay?
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   Q.   What are the circumstances in which the person gets to use
    37        his holiday increments?
    38        A.  Someone will come up to myself and they will say, "Can
    39        I have my holiday pay", and I obviously check that they are
    40        going on holiday.  Sometimes they are allowed it if they
    41        were not going on holiday, but that was in different
    42        circumstances.  Basically, I will just claim it on the
    43        computer; and, generally, when they ask, if anyone asks,
    44        you know, how much they have got, you tell them.  So it is
    45        quite an open thing.
    46
    47   Q.   This may be obvious, but if somebody wants an expensive
    48        holiday, then they would have to wait a bit to total up all
    49        the 8.33 per cent?
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Is that system explained to people when they join the 
    53        Company?
    54        A.  Yes.
    55
    56   Q.   Do you actually recall whether you explained it to
    57        Mr. Beech?
    58        A.  I would say yes, because I have gone through the
    59        orientation checklist; so, yes.
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