Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 32


     
     1   Q.   Is it a statement made by you?
     2        A.  Yes, it is.
     3
     4   Q.   Are its contents true?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   Can I just ask you one or two questions about it?  We
     8        notice that you were employed by McDonald's from March 1981
     9        to May 1987 -- that is over six years -- as a payroll
    10        manager; yes?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   Had you had any experience of doing payroll work before you
    14        joined McDonald's?
    15        A.  Yes, indeed, I had.
    16
    17   Q.   You had?  You tell us that the only wages inspector you
    18        dealt with during that period was a Mr. Mills?
    19        A.  That is correct.
    20
    21   Q.   That is right?  You said that he visited, after the Company
    22        moved from Hampstead High Street to Ballards Lane in
    23        Finchley, some time in 1981 or 1982?
    24        A.  That is correct.
    25
    26   Q.   That is the beginning of your time as payroll manager ---
    27        A.  That is right.
    28
    29   Q.  -- at McDonald's.  Then you tell us, at the beginning of
    30        paragraph 3, that: "Mr. Mills made approximately two visits
    31        a year to the office, and he spent two or three hours with
    32        us on each occasion."  Do you think you, personally, will
    33        have been present on each of those occasions, or not?
    34        A.  I think, without exception, I was present for all of
    35        his visits.
    36
    37   Q.   Then you say in the next sentence: "Often he would arrive
    38        after he first visited restaurants and he examined their
    39        records."  That, presumably, is what he told you he had
    40        been doing; is that right?
    41        A.  That is right.
    42
    43   Q.   Did he bring any records from the restaurant with him when
    44        he came to Head Office?
    45        A.  Yes, he did.  He always had a folder with
    46        correspondence, and sometimes he had copies of clock cards
    47        and what have you.
    48
    49   Q.   That is, as you say in the next sentence: "He would cross
    50        check the records kept at Head Office with the records he 
    51        had inspected at those restaurants"? 
    52        A.  That is right. 
    53
    54   Q.   Did you watch him do that?
    55        A.  Yes.  I was with him all the time.
    56
    57   Q.   So you did not just give him the papers and let him sit on
    58        his own in the room?
    59        A.  If it was something that was going to take a lot of
    60        time, then perhaps we left him for a little while.  But,

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