Day 302 - 18 Nov 96 - Page 29


     
     1        Then it says, for the time record sheet, we have seen a few
     2        time record sheets and I don't think they are filled in
     3        comprehensively, 'it is a legal requirement', it says, 'to
     4        record the following information on the schedule sheets',
     5        and it identifies what should be filled in.  One of the
     6        things is that when an employee's actual hours worked
     7        differs by more than 15 minutes in total on a shift on
     8        those schedules it must be put on the time record sheet
     9        that the person worked, you know, different hours to that
    10        which they are scheduled.  That to me is a recognition that
    11        it is an unfair and poor work practice that people should
    12        be expected to work a certain number of hours and actually
    13        work a different number of hours.  That really happens at
    14        McDonald's quite regularly.  It says -- no, (Pause) I will
    15        not go into more of that.  I am not sure what reference
    16        that manual is, but it is useful.  Pages 20 and 21 of that
    17        manual.  I think it is bundle pages 27 and 28, but I am not
    18        sure.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Right.
    21
    22   MR. MORRIS:   Might that be a good time?
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes, two o'clock.
    25
    26                        (Luncheon Adjournment)
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Apparently something has happened with
    29        Mrs. Brinley-Codd's screen.  I will ask Mr. Green to see if
    30        she really needs it.  If she can do without it, we will
    31        stop the engineer coming to avoid the interruption.  Yes.
    32
    33   MR. MORRIS:   I think Mr Atkinson has one as well.
    34
    35        Right.  I think the next point we are going to go on to,
    36        just a brief mention of health and safety.  Starting off
    37        with the electrocution on October 12th 1992 of Mark
    38        Hopkins, floor manager in Manchester.  Just prior to that,
    39        McDonald's memo from northwest region, dated 17/2/1992,
    40        I think it was.  I think it was a different date to that,
    41        actually.  (Pause)  To save looking, it was the memo, I am
    42        sure the date has been noted somewhere, that said "There
    43        have been several recent incidents in our restaurants where
    44        members of staff have received severe shocks from faulty
    45        items of electrical equipment."
    46
    47        It seems this was a general problem and known to be a
    48        general problem in northwest region.  And, obviously, Mr.
    49        Hopkins died of electrocution and we say the evidence shows
    50        that the company, whilst doing its own confidential
    51        investigation, which was never released, scapegoated a
    52        friend of Mr. Hopkins as the person responsible for the
    53        accident.  But I am not going to go into the details.  It
    54        is quite clear to us that the company was responsible in
    55        any number of ways, and their own confidential
    56        investigation -- I have not got the actual quote in front
    57        of me - oh, yes, had catalogued a number of company
    58        failures and problems and had made the damning conclusion
    59        "safety is not seen as being important at store level".
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