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     1        reach a deadlock.  Unless you want to challenge the
     2        percentages which have been given for those who are
     3        part-time and those who are full-time workers for some
     4        specific purpose in the case, it seems to me there is no
     5        point in this questioning.  If you are making the point
     6        that a person who is a part-time worker does not get
     7        certain rights so far as unfair dismissal is concerned,
     8        whereas a person who is a full-time worker does get certain
     9        rights, the definition of whether the person is full-time
    10        or part-time is absolutely out of McDonald's hands, because
    11        what you have to look at it is how many hours the person
    12        has worked, and then look at the statutory provision and
    13        see whether they fit the bill of part-time or full-time
    14        work.  There is nothing McDonald's can do about that.
    15
    16        If you are suggesting that McDonald's engages people who
    17        expect to work full-time but then only offers them a
    18        certain number of hours a week which would put them in the
    19        statutory definition of a part-time worker rather than a
    20        full-time worker, then by all means put it to Ms. Mead.
    21        But the definition of what is a part-time worker and what
    22        is a full-time worker for the purposes of the protective
    23        legislation in relation to unfair dismissal, is not up to
    24        McDonald's.
    25
    26   MS. STEEL:   You said in your examination-in-chief that it was
    27        in relation to the personnel audit, I think, which had a
    28        section about the employment of young people, under age
    29        employees, under school leaving age and the employment of
    30        under 18 year olds.  You said that the Company keeps
    31        statistics on that and they still do.  What percentage of
    32        employees are under school leaving age?
    33        A.  Could you repeat back to me what I am supposed to have
    34        said about that yesterday, because I am sure I did not say
    35        we kept percentages of people employed under school leaving
    36        age?
    37
    38   Q.   We were looking at document A.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is document A and it is the last but three
    41        pages in that section, section 6.
    42
    43   MS. STEEL:   Mr. Rampton asked you: "Does the Company still
    44        collect figures or statistics about the employment of young
    45        people?" That was in relation to this document?
    46        A.  Right, OK.  I know what that was about.  I think what
    47        I understood him to be asking me was do we still monitor
    48        and evaluate the employment of young people via an audit in
    49        this way, and that is the question to which I thought I was
    50        replying yes to because it is still assessed on audit. 
    51 
    52   Q.   But the Company does not actually keep any statistics on it 
    53        then?
    54        A.  Well, it has the audits.
    55
    56   Q.   But the results are not compiled?
    57        A.  No.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  One of the documents that we had employment of
    60        young people, well, we had employment of crew by their age,

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