Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 41


     
     1        A.  That is correct.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, that is all I have to ask about overtime.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  We will break off now and resume at
     6        2 o'clock.
     7
     8                        (Luncheon Adjournment)
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Rampton, I have to rise at 10 past 3 or
    11        thereabouts.  I am sorry it means we will lose an hour or
    12        so of the afternoon, but I do not propose to say anything
    13        more.
    14
    15   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Stein, the last topic we dealt with before the
    16        adjournment was overtime.  I now want to ask you about
    17        something about the age of your hourly paid workforce.  Am
    18        I right in thinking that a substantial proportion of those
    19        that work in the restaurants are aged 19 or less?
    20        A.  That is correct.
    21
    22   Q.   Roughly, what proportion is of that age category?
    23        A.  Approximately 48 per cent.
    24
    25   Q.   So that the remaining 52 per cent, this follows, are aged
    26        20 or more?
    27        A.  That is correct.
    28
    29   Q.   If I am a college student and I work for McDonald's during
    30        my college vacations, yes?
    31        A.  Yes.
    32
    33   Q.   How many college vacations generally are there in a year in
    34        the United States?
    35        A.  Oh OK.  It varies between institutions, but in
    36        general -- I will give you my experience which will
    37        probably be pretty typical -- you would start in September
    38        and go fairly way through into December.  There may be some
    39        holidays, if you will, during that period, like in the US
    40        there is a Thanks Giving and you generally get a Wednesday
    41        through the weekend then, but then you have a Christmas
    42        break which is really the long period and it is usually
    43        several weeks.  Then you come back for exams.  Then you
    44        similarly have another break of a few weeks after that.
    45        Then you begin your second semester.  Generally there is a
    46        spring break of some duration, a week or two weeks.  Then
    47        you are into your exam period, of course, holidays again in
    48        between.  Then you have a summer off.  The summer generally
    49        would run from May into late August or September.  That is
    50        in general. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Suppose that we start in September and run through to the 
    53        following September, ending at the end of August, suppose
    54        I am a college student and during that year work during my
    55        vacations at McDonald's but not otherwise, and suppose
    56        therefore that I am recorded on the payroll record each
    57        time I depart and go back to college as a lever.  When
    58        I return for my next spell at work at McDonald's the next
    59        break of vacation, do I come back at the same rate of pay
    60        as I left or at the starting rate?

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