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                                                                  DAY 212
 
                                                   KIM MOFFATT, Examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.   Right.  Then you see at the bottom of the page, this lady
     2         -- it is a lady -- Rianna Easton has written some
     3        handwritten comments; do you see that?
     4        A.  Yes.
     5
     6   Q.   The first comment was, "A number of excessive entries for
     7        adjustment audit reports but all are signed", is that
     8        something you look at in an adjustment report -----
     9        A.  Yes, yes, I check that.
    10
    11   Q.   -- and see whether they are signed?
    12        A.  Yes, they must be signed.
    13
    14   Q.   Then there is a remark about somebody who worked a close
    15        although still under 18 years.  Then No. 3:  "Nine breaks
    16        not taken/too short out of 10 days checked".  What system
    17        do you use, or have you used, when you have done these
    18        audits to see that the right number and the right length of
    19        breaks are taken?
    20        A.  What I usually do is take -- probably take 10 employees
    21        and then go through the schedule, the clocking in and out
    22        reports, and just check.  I would check it against them, so
    23        I would take 10 employees ------
    24
    25   Q.   So, is it a random sample?
    26        A.  Oh, yes, yes, just pick them out of the filing cabinet,
    27        their files, because I use them later on as well.  So you
    28        take 10 employees and check, you know, their clocking in
    29        and out, their breaks taken.
    30
    31   Q.   Over what sort of period?
    32        A.  A month.
    33
    34   Q.   A month.  So would you check 10 employees through for a
    35        whole month?
    36        A.  Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   For all these things?
    39        A.  Yes.
    40
    41   Q.   Their age?
    42        A.  Yes, everything under hours and work regulations.
    43
    44   Q.   The number of Sundays, the number of ---
    45        A.  Hours they have worked.
    46
    47   Q.   -- breaks they have taken, the number of hours they have
    48        done?
    49        A.  Yes.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Would there be a way you choose the 10?  I 
    52        mean, would you make sure that three or four of them were 
    53        under 18, or anything like that?
    54        A.  The first thing you do, I would pick out 10 files
    55        randomly, but then you make sure you have, say, two new
    56        starters, three full-timers, three part-timers and,
    57        perhaps, someone on the dining area, so that is obviously
    58        different to a crew member.  So you just try to get a cover
    59        of all the store.
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