Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 33
1 process, you cannot ask any questions at all with regard to
2 origin. Once someone is employed, hired, given the --
3 offered the job, then the government requires you to keep a
4 record by what minority group you fit into and every
5 employer -----
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7 Q. No. All I am asking is, if you can say, what is the
8 history behind having to be aware that people of Hispanic
9 origin, non-black Hispanic origin, suffer a risk of
10 discrimination in the United States sufficient to warrant
11 having a coding or some protection against it?
12 A. I am no expert on this, but I can gladly try to give
13 you some general information. The Hispanics, in general,
14 that are residing in the US are not necessarily coming
15 directly from Spain; they are coming for the most part
16 under developed countries.
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18 Q. They have come across the Rio Grand, a lot of them?
19 A. Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua; they come from South
20 America and generally from those groups.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: I think I have asked about that. There is a
23 document I would like you to look at. I now remember where
24 I was, Mr. Stein. My apologies. Can you replace that
25 yellow X with the pink XI which you had a moment ago?
26 A. OK.
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28 Q. Turn again, please, to tab 6 and to page 311 which is a
29 page of the Crew Book of 1992. The second half of the
30 page, I hope, is headed Performance Reviews and Pay
31 Increases?
32 A. Yes, yes, I have it.
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34 Q. It says: "McDonald's is a pay for performance company.
35 This means that the better you do your job, the more money
36 you can make". So far as your experience over 21 years in
37 McDonald's is concerned, is that true or false?
38 A. Oh, it is absolutely correct. We are a pay for
39 performance company.
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41 Q. "Your management team will review your job performance and
42 wages two times a year, according to your hire date", true
43 or false?
44 A. That is true.
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46 Q. Does it happen in practice?
47 A. Yes, it does.
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49 Q. Are there cases where sometimes a Manager will over look
50 his obligation to do it as frequently as he ought to?
51 A. Yes, there are. It will happen on occasion but,
52 hopefully, the checks and balances that exist in the system
53 will catch that and deal with that.
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55 Q. What are the checks and systems that would catch a sloppy
56 Manager?
57 A. We have rap sessions, crew meetings, internal
58 communication, visits by Human Resources, audits, if you
59 will.
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