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     2   Q.   Sort of A, B, C, D and may be E; A probably covers a whole
     3        lot of ones in a very broad way and then the others
     4        condescend more to particulars within different areas ---
     5        A.  Yes, that is right.
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     7   Q.   Is that right?  Is my recollection right?
     8        A.  Yes, that is right.
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    10   Q.   It is two or three years since I have looked at one.
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    12   MR. RAMPTON:  I am grateful to your Lordship for that.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So when I look at the McDonald's rates they
    15        are starting rates?
    16        A.  Yes.
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    18   MR. RAMPTON (To the witness):  Are they the starting rates -- it
    19        says "Basic Provincial, Outer London, Inner London" --
    20        sorry, Ms. Mead, perhaps I should have brought this out.
    21        I had assumed that is -- we can check it against the other
    22        documents we have but it will save time if we do not have
    23        to -- the basic starting rate for the day-time shift?
    24        A.  Yes, they will be.  That is how -- I have not checked
    25        either but that would be how we have quoted -----
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    27   MS. STEEL:  It actually does not tally with the crew salary
    28        history in volume XII, tab 29.
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    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, leave that for a moment.  All I was
    31        trying to establish when I asked my question is whether you
    32        have been able to take from the New Earnings Survey, from
    33        some information in the New Earnings Survey, starting rates
    34        in the various categories, or just what the averages are.
    35        A.  Just what the averages are, I believe.  I cannot say
    36        I am familiar with every aspect of the surveys, but
    37        I believe it is hard to get starting rates.
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    39   Q.   My recollection is that the surveys have the basic pay,
    40        then they have an overtime column, then they have the gross
    41        and then they take the next and so on?
    42        A.  Yes.
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    44   Q.   There are about six columns on each page?
    45        A.  Yes, that is right.  It is partly because you cannot
    46        always get starting rates that we have then got things like
    47        the Survey of Retail Wages which is attached because that
    48        is a way of assessing that.
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    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We may come to that but at the moment I have 
    51        not got passed G1. 
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    53   MR. RAMPTON:  If we turn to G2, we do not know what the date is,
    54        but do you think -- I may have asked this already -- it
    55        might have been later than 1989?
    56        A.  Yes, certainly it is.
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    58   Q.   There is, first of all, a Survey of Retail Wages generally,
    59        that is on the second page of the document.  Do you see
    60        that?

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