Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 48
1 Q. You did the audit for your own stores?
2 A. Yes, two of them.
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4 Q. That was what was submitted to Head Office as a record of
5 how good the stores were?
6 A. No, it was one of the records certainly, but I think I
7 am right in saying that those human resources field
8 officers, those area supervisors we were talking about
9 earlier on, I am pretty sure had to do one themselves at
10 least annually, but again I am going into territory that I
11 am not qualified to speak about. They would certainly come
12 over and have a look at it I think.
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14 Q. If they did a check annually they would not in a visit of
15 maybe a few hours in a store be able to check every single
16 hours, shifts, whatever, for every single under 18 year old
17 worker of which there are -- I think we have had heard in
18 the case -- something like one third of all workers of
19 McDonald's are under 18?
20 A. Sorry, again it was not my job responsibility but I do
21 remember them being extremely thorough. They would go
22 back. Whether or not they would go back how far is
23 probably for one of them to discuss but I am ----
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you are being asked is, however far it
26 went back, when you got to the end of the year, would you
27 know that you had checked all the under-18s' clock cards at
28 Colchester and Clacton, cover the whole of that year, to
29 make sure no young woman under 18 worked past 10 p.m. and
30 no young man under 18 worked past midnight?
31 A. I would probably have checked them all, yes.
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33 MR. MORRIS: Would you do that every week or every quarter?
34 A. The idea being of a quarterly review is not to just do
35 it at that moment in time on the quarter.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is why you are being asked the question,
38 you see.
39 A. That is what I would do, is do it either on a weekly
40 basis or perhaps may spend two days. But the idea was to
41 have an ongoing record, not just in that one moment of
42 time. So I would do, as I was checking payroll and clock
43 cards, checking all those as well, because the legal
44 requirements were such that you could not have a
45 90 per cent completion; they all had to be correct. So I
46 would have had to checked them all, anyway, even if there
47 were probably 25 or 30, or whatever.
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49 Q. Would you check the scheduled hours or would you check the
50 actual hours worked?
51 A. Both.
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53 Q. Both?
54 A. Part of my responsibilities would be to come in during
55 the week and to ensure that an under-18 had not been
56 scheduled for a shift past their legal requirements; and
57 I think, generally, in those days, again with the schedule,
58 we marked an X after the employee's name on the schedule to
59 denote the fact they were under 18 and to make them sort of
60 more visible. But, again, you would actually check to make
