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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  OK.
     2
     3   Q.   In paragraph 13, you said: "It is not necessary to turn the
     4        grill off to change the Teflon, and does not normally
     5        happen."  Do you accept that it does sometimes happen, that
     6        people would not turn their grill off first before
     7        they -----
     8        A.  No, it never happens.
     9
    10   Q.   You said it does not normally happen.
    11        A.  It would be turned off at night, because the grill is
    12        turned off anyway, and that is when it would be changed.
    13        I have never seen anybody turn off a grill in the middle of
    14        the day to replace a Teflon.
    15
    16   Q.   But other times it could be changed when the grill is off?
    17        A.  It can be changed when the grill is off at night when
    18        the store is closed.
    19
    20   Q.   That is when it is meant to be changed, at night?
    21        A.  Yes.  It can be changed when the grill is on.
    22
    23   Q.   But, in general, it is changed during the night?
    24        A.  Yes.  It is easier.
    25
    26   Q.   Right, OK.  It is easier at night because you have more
    27        time and the grill is off and it is easier to do?
    28        A.  That is correct, yes.
    29
    30   Q.   The night closers that do -- I think it was you who
    31        mentioned that, for example, is it Mr. Patil, did he do
    32        night closes?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   He did a lot of premium hours.  Presumably, did he choose
    36        to do nights because he needed the money, he needed the
    37        premium rate, and that is why he put in those -----
    38        A.  I never asked him.  I never asked him.  I was not there
    39        when he was employed, and I never asked him after I worked
    40        with him.
    41
    42   Q.   When you were Manager of the store, the premium rate was
    43        abolished, was it not?
    44        A.  No, it was not, not as far as I know.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can someone give me the date for that?
    47        I know we had it before.
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  31.7.94.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  And it became just one rate apart from the 
    52        regular rate? 
    53        A.  It might well have happened when I was there, but it
    54        was not something I was aware of happening.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  Well, in the -----
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just remind me.  A time came -- and I cannot
    59        remember now, I would have to look it up -- it then covered
    60        evening, what had been evening time and premium time, or
 
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