Day 164 - 26 Sep 95 - Page 26


     
     1        schedule.  "It will give you the basic skills in developing
     2        a crew schedule for your restaurant".  Then just below that
     3        it says:  "The UK Management and Crew Scheduling Programme
     4        contains a step by step guide on how to complete a crew
     5        schedule whether your restaurant completes the crew
     6        schedule manually or by use of the ISP."   Unfortunately,
     7        this document does not say what the date of it is.  It is
     8        obviously not the whole of the management development
     9        programme.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us see what information comes in the
    12        morning.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  If I can move on to the Towers and Perrin report of
    15        the dispute over racist wage differentials in Philadelphia.
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  I am sorry, I am not being discourteous, I hope.
    18        I am trying to save time.  With Mr. Morris' request for
    19        this document in mind, when I was in Chicago last week
    20        I personally made enquiries whether Towers and Perrin (even
    21        were it disclosable which is an entirely separate question
    22        which I do not need to argue in view of the information
    23        which I now give your Lordship) had kept any copy of the
    24        original report or any part of it.  The answer is that they
    25        did not.
    26
    27        The reason that they did not was, as your Lordship,
    28        I think, was told by Mr. Stein, they received the
    29        information from the restaurants in confidence, and as soon
    30        as McDonald's had got the report themselves Towers and
    31        Perrin destroyed their own copy.
    32
    33        I was also told that when Mr. Morris telephoned Towers and
    34        Perrin he was told that if -- if -- Towers and Perrin --
    35        that was sometime ago; that was while Mr. Stein was giving
    36        evidence -- still had a copy, they would have it in
    37        storage.  Since then they have looked to see whether they
    38        do and they do not; as your Lordship knows, McDonald's do
    39        not have one either.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  It gets curiouser and curiouser.  Obviously, if the
    42        Plaintiffs had destroyed their copies of the document and
    43        now Towers and Perrin are saying, as an internationally
    44        respected research organisation, they have not kept a copy
    45        of a research document they did (which surprises me) there
    46        are two possible things that I can say.  I have not got
    47        Mr. Marcheid's statement in front of me.  The Plaintiffs
    48        have made a Civil Evidence Act Notice -----
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  One of the notes I have made for my own 
    51        purpose is where Mr. Richard Marcheid's statement went. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  It went at the back of -- he is No. 42 in yellow
    54        XIII.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  I have not got a copy of Mr. Marcheid's statement
    57        in front of me.  I do not know if there is a spare one?
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I just want to read it.  If someone has a
    60        copy and you want to read it, perhaps you could, although

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