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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                                 DAVID ROBERTS, Examined:
 
 
 
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     2   Q.   Yes.  Then it was after a while, was it, that you say you
     3        scheduled them only to 11.00 or half past?
     4        A.  Yes, after a couple of weeks we had people to work
     5        those hours anyway.
     6
     7   Q.   You mean over 18s?
     8        A.  Yes.
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    10   Q.   So you only scheduled under-18s to 11.00 or 11.30, you are
    11        saying?
    12        A.  Whichever hours they requested.  If they requested to
    13        work until half past 11.00, there was not a problem with
    14        the schedule whereby they would have to work past that
    15        time.
    16
    17   Q.   So that is what you mean in paragraph 7 of your statement,
    18        is it?  "As soon as I had managed to recruit extra crew
    19        members I ensured that this did not happen again"?
    20        A.  That is correct.
    21
    22   Q.   Yes.
    23
    24   MR. RAMPTON:  While you have that open, paragraph 7, you go on:
    25         "Similarly, I found out that some of the Managers had been
    26        altering clock cards in order to hide the fact that crew
    27        members under 18 years old had been working past
    28        12 o'clock".  How did you discover that?
    29        A.  As I said, from Kim Moffatt, she told me that it had
    30        been happening.
    31
    32   Q.   Right.  The next paragraph in Mr. Beech's statement, "(B)
    33        Pay" says:  "Mr. Beech has discovered from looking at the
    34        disclosed documents that he is owed £59.72 holiday pay".
    35        He goes on:  "No-one ever told him that he was entitled to
    36        any holiday pay".  Mr. Roberts ignore the last sentence
    37        because Miss Moffatt has dealt with that.  What I would
    38        like you to look at is a document which we now have which
    39        is at the back of the Heathrow file which is the slim one
    40        beside you.  It should be the last document in the file.
    41        It is the pay period in question.  It is one of the payroll
    42        summary sheets.  It is from 23rd October 94 to 5th November
    43        94.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  What number are we on?
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  It is the document which was disclosed yesterday
    48        afternoon.  Have you got it?
    49        A.  Yes, I have, yes.
    50 
    51   Q.   The date of the actual document is the 8.11.1994.  Does 
    52        your Lordship have it? 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I did was put in the back of mine the
    55        clip I was given, and the last sheet of that is -- did you
    56        mean the last whole document?
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  No, sorry, I did not mean the last sheet.  I meant
    59        it is the first sheet of the last clip.
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