Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 43


     
     1   Q.   You do, do you?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   What was your, roughly speaking again, on average, annual
     5        turnover at Colchester when you were there in the mid 80s?
     6        A.  Approximately about 130, 140.  That is very much a
     7        guess, I would imagine.
     8
     9   Q.   Amongst that 130, 140 per cent have you any idea how many
    10        of those people were people that had worked at McDonald's
    11        before, maybe Colchester, maybe somewhere else, that left
    12        and came back?
    13        A.  I would not even like to hazard a guess.  A proportion,
    14        but I would not have said it was a huge proportion.
    15
    16   Q.   Are there any or were there any tertiary educational
    17        establishments in Colchester in those days?
    18        A.  Tertiary?
    19
    20   Q.   I mean, after school, college?
    21        A.  Certainly, yes.  The 6th form college and there was
    22        Essex University on the outskirts of the town.
    23
    24   Q.   Did you have any people from those establishments working
    25        for you?
    26        A.  Yes, we had a number of people from both those
    27        establishments working for us.
    28
    29   Q.   Would they tend to work during the term or during the
    30        vacations or both?
    31        A.  Both.
    32
    33   Q.   If a person -- and I am now asking for your experience of
    34        McDonald's as a whole, your personal experience -- if a
    35        person has previously worked at a McDonald's restaurant
    36        then, I do not know, leaves to go and have a baby or leaves
    37        to go back to college, or something like that, and then
    38        comes back to work again, whether at the same restaurant or
    39        another one, what rate of pay do they restart at?
    40        A.  Restart at the pay rate that they left.
    41
    42   Q.   If the basic, which is set by the Company nationally, has
    43        gone up during the interim while they have been away?
    44        A.  They would start at that basic rate, unless they come
    45        to some agreement with the Manager who wanted to update
    46        them and maybe give them a proportional rise rate, although
    47        that would -- he would not be obliged to do that, although
    48        to be reasonable, and personally myself as a Manager, if
    49        I was being reasonable and I thought the person was a good
    50        person, then I may well do that, although I am not obliged 
    51        to. 
    52 
    53   Q.   So if they carried any increases away with them and,
    54        basically, it has gone up in the meantime, would they
    55        preserve the increase when they came back or not?
    56        A.  Not necessarily.  I mean, it depends on how long they
    57        were away for and whether they had expressed, you know,
    58        that they wanted to come back.  So, for instance, if it
    59        was, for the student who had gone away for the holidays or
    60        gone away for the term time then, yes, they would.  But if

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