Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 78
1 scheduling a 17 year old woman for a shift which is going
2 to go until 11.00 or midnight that the program will refuse
3 to accept that?
4 A. That is not the hunter, sorry.
5
6 Q. I know that is not the hunter. I appreciate that. But
7 what are putting into the computer is the whole shift,
8 including the end time, and it is end time which falls foul
9 of the law and that the computer, therefore, refuses to
10 accept?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. But when you are clocking in on the clocking in machine,
14 all you are doing, although, no doubt, things have changed
15 substantially since my day, putting a card in a slot and
16 pressing a button, or something of that kind?
17 A. Certainly, yes.
18
19 Q. That is just recording the beginning of the shift?
20 A. That is right.
21
22 Q. So it is maybe recording, for instance, 4.00 p.m.?
23 A. Yes.
24
25 Q. So there is nothing wrong with starting work at 4 p.m. if
26 you are a 17 year old woman.
27 A. No.
28
29 Q. Where does the hunter register that something has gone
30 wrong? Is it when you clock out at 11.00 or whatever?
31 A. It would not allow the crew member to clock out past
32 the 10 o'clock period. It would flash up -- when the
33 report came out from the hunter, it would flash up an
34 asterisk which would highlight both to the restaurant and
35 to the payroll at Head Office that somebody -----
36
37 Q. It would print an asterisk on the card, would it?
38 A. Sorry, by the "hunter" is the computerised method ---
39
40 Q. Yes.
41 A. -- of clocking in and clocking out.
42
43 Q. Yes, but where does it register its asterisk?
44 A. Oh, on a computer printer. What you do, the hunter is
45 a wall mounted bracket. You take the hunter out, put a
46 plug in one side of the hunter, plug it into the printer
47 and print out the details for the day as part of the
48 closing thing, and then -----
49
50 Q. Right, that will put an asterisk against something which
51 has broken the law you are saying?
52 A. Yes, that is right. Also, it is attached to a modem
53 which is rung at 1.00 or 2 o'clock in the morning from Head
54 Office, and it generates a report which it also asterisks
55 anything that contravenes the law or McDonald's policy.
56
57 Q. I understand now. It did not prevent you clocking them on
58 for a shift which might go beyond the legal hours. What it
59 did was register a breach of the law ----
60 A. That is right.
