Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 40


     
     1        situation; they were very pleased to be able to have a job
     2        in the holiday times where they could earn money, and also
     3        a job that they often returned to the following holidays.
     4        We did not have a monopoly on the labour market.  There was
     5        a large number of places they could have returned or gone
     6        to work with, and I would like to consider that they came
     7        back because they enjoyed doing the work.
     8
     9   Q.   And they needed the money?
    10        A.  They worked (1) because they enjoyed it and (2),
    11        I would assume, because they wanted to be paid, yes.
    12
    13   Q.   Just going on to paragraph 35, you say you recall that
    14        Adrian Brett was a reasonable floor manager and it probably
    15        was suggested to him that he would have a good chance of
    16        being a salaried manager.  Is that correct?
    17        A.  That is what I wrote there, yes.
    18
    19   Q.   Is it correct?  Is that what you believe?
    20        A.  Yes, although the statement is slightly misleading in
    21        the fact that he would have to have been 20 before he would
    22        have been able to be a salaried manager, or 21.  Therefore,
    23        he would not still have been at school at the point where
    24        he became a salaried manager.
    25
    26   Q.   So he had reached a kind of level of competence and ---
    27        A.  He might have done.
    28
    29   Q.   -- and confidence from management higher up, to which he
    30        looked like someone that would be suitable for a salaried
    31        manager, but he would have to wait for that?
    32        A.  No, I would not say that specifically.  He was a
    33        reasonable floor manager, and it may have been suggested --
    34        he actually went salaried after I had left the
    35        restaurant -- and it may have been suggested to him at that
    36        point that he may have been good enough to be a salaried
    37        manager.  As far as being persuaded to give up school,
    38        I have no recollection of that happening.
    39
    40   Q.   I do not know if this is a misprint or not, in your
    41        point 36, the allegation of breaks being completed by
    42        4 p.m.?  I do not know whether it is misprint in your one
    43        or Mr. Alimi's, but his -----
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, page 11 of Mr. Alimi's statement, 7 p.m.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:   Thank you, yes.  Would that sound like more
    48        relative time for breaks to be planned to being completed
    49        by, generally, for the evening shifts, for breaks to be
    50        finished, and Mr. Alimi said by 7? 
    51        A.  No.  Generally, I would have expected them to be more 
    52        evenly spread out through the evening, especially as the 4 
    53        till 6 period was probably, generally, the busier time of
    54        the evening period; that is the teatime.
    55
    56   Q.   You say you cannot recall -- I am sorry.  37, the last
    57        line -- you cannot recall Siamak complaining about anything
    58        during his time at McDonald's?
    59        A.  I cannot, no.
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