Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 56
1 obviously, the potential significance of other starting
2 rates.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, indeed so. I cannot do any more than tell
5 your Lordship that I think (and I will try to get it
6 confirmed) the date of this document is 1993, G2.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, the 3.30 Inner London McDonald's
9 rate is the rate which prevailed between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
10 in June 91 and June 92 for both those years.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, but then if this document were the beginning
13 of 1993, before June 1993, if there was a rise in that
14 year, that would make sense.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Indeed it might do.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: It might, yes. I will just have a look to
19 see -----
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The 3.05 is both 1991 and 1992 and the £3
22 provincial is 10p more than June 91, and it is the June 92
23 figure.
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25 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, which might suggest that this document, which
26 I thought was 1993, came in the first six months of ----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I am going to write in for the moment
29 against McDonald's rates is they appear to be June 92
30 figures, according to page 672, and the 3.30 and 3.05 are
31 June 91 and 92 figures. Thank you.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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35 MR. MORRIS: I am just trying to go back to the previous point
36 about the manager's discretion to keep an employee on their
37 rate, having been potentially upped by 5 pence, or whatever
38 it is, an hour for a performance review. The cut-off point
39 after a person has not been rescheduled, or whatever it is,
40 would be something like six weeks, yes? Would that apply
41 to all employees, all hourly paid employees?
42 A. It would depend on the other categories that you might
43 be thinking of, the broad guideline would, but it might
44 differ for I can think of, say, Floor Managers where the
45 hours they would work and so on, it would differ, their
46 availability, or it would have more of a relevance because
47 there were fewer of them, depending on what shifts they
48 were working and so on.
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50 Q. But for the vast majority that cut off point would be
51 applicable to all of them?
52 A. Which cut-off point?
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54 Q. The six weeks after their final scheduling, kind of thing?
55 A. Yes, the way that would generally work is that when the
56 person was going away, that they would say to the Manager
57 how long they were going to be away for. Then the Manager
58 would agree with them that if they are going to be away for
59 three months that their employment would end, for example,
60 three months, their employment would end and they would
