Day 140 - 22 Jun 95 - Page 47
1
2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause for a moment, since I have started
3 this. (To the witness) Do you recall any concession or
4 any statement by McDonald's officials that the disparity
5 shrunk to 11 cents, which is what the third paragraph on
6 the McDonald's summary of the Towers, etcetera, report said
7 it was ---
8 A. No, your Honour.
9
10 Q. -- since the raising of the federal minimum?
11 A. No, your Honour. I did not speak with this reporter or
12 anyone from that newspaper, so I have no knowledge of that.
13
14 MR. MORRIS: If you go to page 1467 in the other file, the
15 pink XIV file, number 92 -- yes?
16 A. In which file?
17
18 Q. It is the pink XIV file. You have it there somewhere.
19 A. Pink XIV?
20
21 Q. Yes. Sorry, before you look at the document -- you have
22 not got it open?
23 A. No.
24
25 Q. Do you accept that the differential as admitted by the
26 Company was 22 cents an hour before the survey was done?
27 A. Wait a second. The survey that the Company did, the
28 one that I did, reflected the possibility that it might be
29 as much as 22 cents. That was the survey that we did. I
30 am pretty sure we communicated that. So that part, I agree
31 with.
32
33 Q. What did it say? If you look at number 92 -----
34 A. OK, that is in the pink book XIV?
35
36 Q. Yes.
37 A. Yes, sure.
38
39 Q. The fifth point down on that page: "The average suburban
40 starting wage....."
41 A. Correct.
42
43 Q. "....at McDonald's does not exceed city starting wages by
44 more than 22 cents per hour"?
45 A. That is correct.
46
47 Q. That was part of your survey?
48 A. That is correct.
49
50 Q. That looked at actual payrolls?
51 A. That is correct.
52
53 Q. Then this report of Towers Perrin Foster & Crosby found out
54 that they say -- or you say they say -- that the
55 differential was, on average, 11 cents.
56 A. Uh-huh.
57
58 Q. So that would indicate that this was done after the federal
59 minimum wage raise and had a reduced differential?
60 A. They are using -- I am sorry. They were using the same
