Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 51
1 other information about what proportion of McDonald's
2 employees are women with young children?
3 A. No, that is right. We do not have that anywhere and
4 the only other thing that would be relevant is that if when
5 the person starts, if they said that they wanted to have
6 time off in holidays, that that can be accommodated. So
7 that would be another way in which it would come to the
8 Manager's attention.
9
10 Q. No statistics or anything like that?
11 A. No.
12
13 MR. MORRIS: Could you explain how performance reviews are done
14 in a store, how are they organised?
15 A. There is some variation to this, but the actual
16 meeting -- I will describe that first and then if you want
17 me to describe the variations that may occur around that,
18 I will because again it is, you know, to some extent
19 discretionary -- but, in principle, the Manager writes up
20 the review and grades the person, and then sits down with
21 the individual, gives them a copy of the form and explains
22 the ratings and the reasons for them.
23
24 Q. They have to fill in certain forms -- does the actual crew
25 member have to fill in any forms to get pass rates and
26 things like that?
27 A. No.
28
29 Q. What about for pay rises? I am getting a little bit
30 confused about the various -- when a worker gets a pay rise
31 of five pence, for example, or 10 pence or, indeed,
32 0 pence, they have to have a certain level of competence?
33 A. Are you linking this in with the training? Is that
34 what you were thinking of about them filling in?
35
36 Q. They do have to have a certain level of competence, do they
37 not?
38 A. Yes.
39
40 Q. Not in just in one particular job but across ---
41 A. Yes.
42
43 Q. -- the jobs that they would be expected to do as a crew
44 person?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you asking if there is a particular form
48 of document?
49
50 MR. MORRIS: No. I am trying to see -- someone could not get
51 that competence just in a few hours, could they? It takes
52 time to get that?
53 A. Yes, it does.
54
55 Q. It would take some weeks of doing McDonald's work to get
56 that level of competence?
57 A. Yes, but again it depends, you can learn it -- I am
58 sorry, I am not speaking loudly enough again -- you learn
59 it in stages and it depends which areas because, obviously,
60 they learn different tasks at different stages, be it for
