Day 116 - 26 Apr 95 - Page 12
1 and Security Coordinator, would their hourly rates be
2 higher than the crew persons'?
3 A. Yes, indeed.
4
5 Q. Would the hourly rate of the Lobby Host or Hostess,
6 Training Squad person, the Night Closer and the Security
7 Co-ordinator be the same for each of those categories or
8 not?
9 A. Roughly the same.
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11 Q. Roughly the same. For reasons which you will know well
12 enough, Mr. Nicholson, I am chiefly concerned, so far as
13 your evidence is concerned, with the hourly paid workers in
14 McDonald's. Are you able to say, roughly speaking, how
15 many people in this country, that is to say, United
16 Kingdom, McDonald's presently employs?
17 A. McDonald's employs roughly 31,000. Then there is the
18 franchisees who have their own staff on top of that.
19
20 Q. This is not a memory test, Mr. Nicholson. You told us in
21 your statement that in 1989 there were roughly 22,000 ---
22 A. That would be right, yes.
23
24 Q. -- employees of whom, I think, 20,000 were hourly paid; is
25 that right?
26 A. Yes, in rough figures.
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28 Q. Rough figures?
29 A. Yes.
30
31 Q. I think I have that, right. Do the proportions remain
32 about the same today or not?
33 A. Yes, I would say the proportions are about the same.
34 There must be just under 3,000 salaried staff now. The
35 remaining would be hourly paid.
36
37 Q. Again I do not expect you to remember -- if you can, it
38 would help -- of those 22,000 in 1989, roughly what
39 proportion would have worked 39 hours or more?
40 A. About 20 per cent.
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42 Q. About 20 per cent?
43 A. Yes.
44
45 Q. The rest, therefore, 80 per cent, would have worked less
46 than 39 hours a week?
47 A. That is correct.
48
49 Q. Are they rightly or properly classified, roughly, as on the
50 one hand full-time and on the other hand part-time?
51 A. Yes.
52
53 Q. Do those proportions as between full-time and part-time
54 remain roughly the same today?
55 A. I believe they are slightly more full-time now. It
56 must be nearer -- Mrs. Lyn Mead will be able to give you a
57 more exact answer because I have not been in Personnel for
58 two, three years, but I believe the figure is nearer 30.
59
60 Q. If it be a question related to turnover which she does deal
