Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 47


     
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     2   MS. STEEL:  No.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  It came out on the transcript as "companies"
     5        so  .....
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     7   MS. STEEL:  It came out as "companies".
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     9   MR. MORRIS:  We just wanted to check.
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    11   THE WITNESS:  I might have said "countries".
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    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I said it can only be compared with other
    14        countries and then I said McDonald's would have no right to
    15        ask that firm to ask questions of other companies.
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    17   MS. STEEL:  Right.
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    19   MR. MORRIS:  I think we can leave that document, hopefully, most
    20        of the documents.
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    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If I may say it now while it is on my mind,
    23        you were asking for some help about your final speech, but
    24        when you are coming to employment what you want to do is
    25        look at all these documents again and take what conclusions
    26        you think helpful to your case you can from them.
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    28        All you need do is say:  "We would submit, if one looks at
    29        the document this, that or the other.  We say that because
    30        this document says 'X'; that says 'Y'; that one says 'Z'
    31        and the obvious conclusion to be drawn is this".  You can
    32        do that off the face of the documents.  If you think
    33        documents go against what you are batting for, you can say:
    34          "We ask you not to rely on that because" and then give me
    35        your reason.
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    37        What you have to do is look at all the ammunition you have
    38        at the end of the day and distil from it the facts you
    39        would seek to establish.  You do not have to take the
    40        witness through as if you were rehearsing in advance the
    41        argument you would like to put forward.
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    43   MR. MORRIS:  Just one thing from one of the documents, I was
    44        going to say , if you just go to E3 , bearing in mind the
    45        length of service in the first two categories which
    46        involves 13 per cent in the first quarter and 21 per cent
    47        in the second quarter, length of service between 0 and two
    48        months, it is not unusual for McDonald's workers to leave
    49        after four or five weeks?  It is not an unusual occurrence,
    50        is it? 
    51        A.  Well, no.  The figures here show that we do have people 
    52        who have that sort of service and to leave with that length 
    53        of service and it is for some of the reasons that we went
    54        through before.
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    56   Q.   OK.  You can put that file to one side now.  In your
    57        examination-in-chief you mentioned how the information from
    58        the personnel evaluation or the document which we looked at
    59        before -- the one that had not been filled in but was done
    60        by area Supervisors , that grades would be compared to the

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