Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 36
1 Q. Then it says: "If your performance improves or you are
2 promoted to a position with a higher maximum rate, you will
3 return to regularly scheduled wage reviews". Does that
4 mean twice a year again ---
5 A. Yes.
6
7 Q. -- from that point?
8 A. Yes, that is correct.
9
10 Q. If you have got one, two, maybe even three, performance
11 related raises at the first level and the second level,
12 then you are promoted, do you lose those performance
13 related raises when you are promoted or ---
14 A. No, sir, you do not.
15
16 Q. -- you take them with you, do you?
17 A. Absolutely, and to make sure there is a complete
18 clarification: If, in fact, you are due for a wage review,
19 you would get that wage review and then we would look at
20 how you fit into the range for the new job. We would also
21 be giving a promotional increase; you would get your merit
22 -- we call it a merit increase ---
23
24 Q. Sorry.
25 A. -- and then you get a promotional increase fitting
26 yourself into that new range. If, by some chance, you were
27 to fall below the minimum of the new range, you would at
28 least, after you have got the merit increase, after you
29 have received a promotional increase, you would at least be
30 brought up to that minimum at the very least.
31
32 Q. What other kinds of financial benefits -- I am coming to
33 benefits in kind in a moment, Mr. Stein --- apart from
34 performance or merit awards and promotion increases, are
35 available to the hourly paid workers in McDonald's?
36 A. You have various rewards and recognition programmes
37 that exist; some of them having monetary value to them and
38 others being strictly recognition. We have a profit
39 sharing programme.
40
41 Q. Explain that, will you, because I do not think we have had
42 that yet?
43 A. This would apply to hourly workers who work 1,000 hours
44 a year.
45
46 Q. Is that 40 hours a week for six months or 20 hours a week
47 for a year?
48 A. Well, you need to be employed for the entire year.
49
50 Q. Continuously?
51 A. Yes.
52
53 Q. So, if continuously for 12 months I did 20 hours a
54 week ---
55 A. That is correct.
56
57 Q. -- then I would qualify for my 1,000 hours in a year, would
58 I not?
59 A. That is correct, sir.
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