Day 116 - 26 Apr 95 - Page 15
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. It is dated 19th January 1990?
4 A. Yes.
5
6 Q. Just turn over the page and tell me whether (as it purports
7 to do) it does, in fact, emanate from your office?
8 A. It does.
9
10 Q. Who is the person who has actually signed it on your
11 behalf?
12 A. Carmel Flatley.
13
14 Q. Carmel Flatley?
15 A. She was my deputy.
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17 Q. Is she still with the organisation?
18 A. She is now Vice President Chief Personnel Officer.
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20 Q. It seems to go through a lot of people, amongst whom are
21 Market Managers, Operation Managers, Senior Supervisors,
22 Supervisors and Restaurant Managers, copies to Paul Preston
23 and others, Senior and Field Personnel Officers. What is
24 the system within McDonald's for making sure, if there is
25 one, that all those people see what they need to see, a
26 document such as this?
27 A. This would be sent to everyone mentioned on that list.
28
29 Q. How, by post or how would it go?
30 A. By internal post.
31
32 Q. By internal post?
33 A. Yes.
34
35 Q. So McDonald's was operating -- perhaps still does, I do not
36 know -- a sort of kind of internal courier system, was it?
37 A. It was -- it still does, but there is also the computer
38 now.
39
40 Q. I was going to ask you that. I cannot remember whether in
41 early 1990 people were using faxes and computer mail in the
42 way that they do now?
43 A. Not to the extent that we do now.
44
45 Q. It is said to come from you -- you have told us that it
46 did?
47 A. Yes.
48
49 Q. "Subject: Employment Act 1989. Date 19th January 1990".
50 It reads: "With effect from 16th January 1990, Section 10
51 of this Act comes into force. In general terms this
52 section repeals the complex regulations concerning the
53 hours of work of young people over school leaving age and
54 under 18"?
55 A. Yes.
56
57 Q. Putting that with his Lordship's question a moment ago,
58 that means 16/17?
59 A. Yes.
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