Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 49


     
     1        junior member of staff as the implement in order to sell
     2        more burgers in McDonald's by putting a competitor out of
     3        action.  The question is:  Where do we go from there?  That
     4        much, I think, you can take as read
     5
     6   MR. MORRIS:  That certainly saves a lot of effort.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, very well.  Yes, I will make a note of
     9        it
    10
    11   MR. MORRIS (To the witness):  Do you know an Assistant Manager,
    12        or did you know an Assistant Manager, at Kentish Town
    13        McDonald's called Linvale who worked around April 1987?
    14        A.  No.
    15
    16   Q.   I am quickly flicking through the pleadings to see if there
    17        is anything I want to ask.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, sit down.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  When somebody sends out a memo from Head Office,
    22        say, from your office, when you were Head of Personnel, for
    23        example, how is that memo authorised?  Can you explain the
    24        mechanism for a memo emanating from your Head of Personnel
    25        Department, Personnel Department, going out?
    26        A.  I am not sure I know what you are asking, if you are
    27        asking -----
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would have thought that anyone can send a
    30        memo to anyone else within the system?
    31        A.  Well, yes.
    32
    33   Q.   Before you sent a memo which seemed to carry with it any
    34        authority or direction, you would want to know it was
    35        within your personal sphere of operation; if you were
    36        concerned that it might be a matter of importance which
    37        you, perhaps, ought not to make the decision alone on, you
    38        might refer to some higher officer?  You might, for
    39        instance ---
    40        A.  Mr. Preston.
    41
    42   Q.    -- consider it with Mr. Preston, or something like that?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   Are there any particular rules or code as to who can send
    46        memos to whom about what apart from -----
    47        A.  No, if it was a matter affecting region, and I expect
    48        that memo to go out from the -- if it was personnel matters
    49         ---
    50 
    51   Q.   Yes. 
    52        A.  -- from the Regional Personnel Manager.  If it was a 
    53        matter affecting the national Company, I would anticipate
    54        that would come out from me.  If it was a matter -- for
    55        instance, the new crew rates of pay in June, then I would
    56        send that memo out, I would sign it, but before I sent it
    57        out, I would let Paul Preston see it because it affected
    58        the whole of the Company.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  So, if there is a national memo, it would have to

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