Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 69


     
     1        Saturday, so they have time available to work and it is a
     2        heavy day for McDonald's, so you have plenty of work to
     3        provide?
     4        A.  Right.
     5
     6   Q.   But if you have an evening shift from 4.00 until 11.00,
     7        I can imagine a student, who could easily finish his daily
     8        studies by 4 o'clock and get in any sporting activity he
     9        wanted to enjoy by then, would be quite prepared to work
    10        two or three days a week from 4.00 to 11.00 and maybe even
    11        the close on until 1 o'clock if he or she needed the
    12        money.  If there was a pattern, that is what Mr. Morris
    13        needs to know.
    14        A.  OK.
    15
    16   Q.   But the picture I am getting, rightly or wrongly, the whole
    17        point of what McDonald's says is it suits them to have
    18        flexible part-time workers, and there are all sorts of
    19        people in this country whom it suits also to be able to
    20        slot in a few hours now and again at times that suit them.
    21        Is there a particular pattern apart from the Saturday
    22        point?
    23        A.  Apart from the Saturday in terms of our business,
    24        I would say not on a typical week.  The only pattern that
    25        would arise is if you came to me and said you were only
    26        available Tuesdays and Thursdays in terms of your studies
    27        because Wednesday afternoon was a sporting activity, or if
    28        you were working during the day because Tuesdays and
    29        Thursdays, or Monday, Wednesday and Friday your child, for
    30        example, may be at child minders or day nursery.
    31
    32        So, that the only pattern as such would be the person
    33        themselves in the day or weekly routine that they worked.
    34        Outside of the Saturday, there was no real routine for a
    35        part-time only.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  Students that take on work in evenings and
    38        Saturdays -- we are talking about full-time students in
    39        general, are we, like, for example -----
    40        A.  Full-time academic?
    41
    42   Q.   Yes.
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   So they would have to be pretty desperate for money, would
    46        they not, if they, effectively, have a full-time job being
    47        students and then they are prepared to work evenings and
    48        Saturdays as well?
    49        A.  Well, I think you do a great disservice to a whole
    50        number of students out there and probably myself included, 
    51        because it was not a matter of being desperate.  It is a 
    52        matter of people paying for their studies, trying to pay 
    53        their way through.  I spent three years going through
    54        university outside of grants, and I do not believe they are
    55        around nowadays, but I still had to pay for my own food and
    56        sustenance, so to speak.
    57
    58   Q.   So they have no choice, have they?
    59        A.  They have to work?
    60

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