Day 116 - 26 Apr 95 - Page 27
1 A. Yes, it does.
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3 Q. It does?
4 A. It is.
5
6 Q. Was she stating the company's position in the matter?
7 A. Yes.
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9 Q. When in the past, and we are going back to two sets of
10 cases in 1982 and one set of cases, Slough, I think it was,
11 or Luton in 1984, that McDonald's were prosecuted for
12 employing under aged people, do you remember those cases?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. How was it that the authorities came by the information
16 enabling to prosecute?
17 A. Well, they visit the stores regularly and examine
18 the -----
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20 Q. Do they?
21 A. Yes, indeed. At that time we had the manual clock card
22 system which you -- a lot of factories, I think -- put a
23 card into a clock which recorded the time that you placed
24 it in and then it would record the time when you were
25 leaving. So, they used to go into the store, examine the
26 records and examine the personnel records of the crew
27 people.
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29 Q. How often would they do that?
30 A. Oh, fairly frequently.
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32 Q. What people were these? I called them "authorities"?
33 A. Wages inspectors.
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35 Q. Wages inspectors?
36 A. Yes, indeed. They would also come to our Head Office
37 and visit the Payroll department and examine our records
38 there.
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40 Q. I was going to lead on to that. When did the computerised
41 system come into place?
42 A. I am really not quite sure but I would have thought
43 round about 1990.
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45 Q. Would they come and look at the computerised record as
46 well, these wages inspectors?
47 A. I do not know. I take it they do but I really do not
48 know.
49
50 Q. Did that inspection by these wages inspectors go on all the
51 time that you were in charge of this part of the company's
52 business?
53 A. Yes, indeed.
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55 Q. Now I want to move, if I may, to something else: Your
56 colleague, Lyn Mead, Mr. Nicholson, has given us some
57 detail in her statement -- she will be giving evidence
58 later on in this case ---
59 A. Yes.
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