Day 192 - 27 Nov 95 - Page 19


     
     1        A.  First week, anyway.
     2
     3   Q.   One question: you said about this meeting you had with Pete
     4        Mortson -----
     5        A.  It was not a meeting; it was just a get-together.  It
     6        was just Christmas time; we were sitting round the
     7        Christmas tree.
     8
     9   Q.   Did he work at the store?
    10        A.  Yes.  He was a Swing Manager there.
    11
    12   Q.   Right.  I think in your second statement you mentioned
    13        something about an incident when you were taken off
    14        drive-thru.  Can you just explain when that was and what
    15        happened?
    16        A.  I believe that was late July of 1993, when
    17        Patty Galbraith -- I do not know what her married name is
    18        now, but she was the Store Manager -- took me into her
    19        office and told me that I would be suspended for drive-thru
    20        for a while -- it was an indefinite amount of time; she did
    21        not give me until when -- because she felt that I did not
    22        smile enough.  But I was placed on counter, where I was
    23        still dealing with people.
    24
    25   Q.   How did you feel about that incident?
    26        A.  I did not understand why she had done this.  She did
    27        not give me any reasons, other than not smiling.  She did
    28        not give me any situations which I should be disciplined
    29        for.  Of course, I was upset, because if you are taken off
    30        a station or whatever, it is shows up on your performance
    31        review which is done biannually, I think, twice a year.  It
    32        shows that you are not on the station any more.  So,
    33        therefore, it is a decrease in your pay increase that you
    34        are supposed to get.
    35
    36   Q.   Can I just ask a question, as you have brought that up,
    37        about pay increases?  You worked there for three years, and
    38        you say that you ended up something like five cents over
    39        the minimum wage?
    40        A.  Yes.  I do not know exactly.  It could have been like
    41        10 cents.  It was not much.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I had completely missed that, which shows the
    44        difficulty.  I have made a note that you finished at
    45        $6.30.
    46        A.  Yes.  It was around there.  I cannot say -----
    47
    48   Q.   How much was that above the minimum wage?
    49        A.  I believe it was about five cents above it.  But I do
    50        not know exactly how much the minimum wage was then. 
    51        I cannot remember. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  So, how was it that, after a number of performance
    54        reviews, that for three years you were still only something
    55        like five or 10 cents above the minimum wage?
    56        A.  What happened was, because the left wing party was in
    57        provincial power, they increased the minimum wage a couple
    58        of times at least; and when they increased the minimum
    59        wage, I would lose my pay increase, so I would just be
    60        making the same wage as, like, new employees, like, the

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