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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        half; Abbas 106; and the other Abbas 106.
     2
     3        There are other ones as well which I have not quoted.  But
     4        do you accept that the long hours worked by a number of
     5        staff which you indicated happened when you arrived --
     6        because you said in paragraph 8: "It was also correct that
     7        when I arrived, a number of crew members were working long
     8        hours" -- that a number of crew members were still working
     9        long hours three or four months later?
    10        A.  Yes, the Managers were, yes.
    11
    12   Q.   Floor Managers?
    13        A.  Yes.
    14
    15   Q.   And training squad?
    16        A.  That is correct, yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Bardwaj (?) was not a Manager, was he?
    19        A.  No.
    20
    21   Q.   So it was not restricted only to Managers?
    22        A.  The majority are.
    23
    24   Q.   Tito -- sorry, OK.  We looked at some documents before --
    25        maybe you were in court at the time -- which showed that
    26        only a small percentage of people that were due their
    27        performance related pay review, their pay review, were
    28        actually getting them on time.  Do you remember that?  This
    29        was under -- I believe it was under Mr. Riley.  That was
    30        before your time.  Do you remember that?
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not want to slow things up, but I think
    33        you should put a document to him, because we never really
    34        got a very satisfactory explanation as to just what it
    35        meant ---
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- in case Mr. Roberts can enlighten us
    40        further.  You only need take just one sheet.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I am trying to find what the page number is.
    43        If we look, for example, let us take an example of
    44        page 66.  This was during the transfer period between you
    45        and Mr. Nevison.  Have you got 66?
    46        A.  Yes, I have.
    47
    48   Q.   We have there, the fourth column in the main body of this
    49        document says: "New" -- is that "regular rate"?
    50        Then: "Difference plus or minus".  "Regular" means regular 
    51        hours, yes, because the next one is new evening rate and 
    52        the third one is the new premium rate; yes? 
    53        A.  Yes.
    54
    55   Q.   Mr. Khazna, I think, said that this was a document which is
    56        one of the ways of finding out when performance reviews
    57        were doing done or being due.
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ask him if he agrees.
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