Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 68


     
     1        toasters.
     2
     3   Q.   Is that something that happens all the time, or what?
     4        A.  Very rarely.
     5
     6   Q.   Very rarely.  Can you remember who it was that you spoke to
     7        from management about the complaints about undercooked
     8        quarter pounders and chicken products?
     9        A.  I cannot remember the specific Manager, no, not really.
    10
    11   Q.   You do not remember whether it was Sean Richards?
    12        A.  It could be; more likely it would be salaried -- it
    13        could be Sean or it could have been Ian or the Store
    14        Manager at the time.  I cannot remember.  More likely to
    15        have been a salaried than a Floor Manager.
    16
    17   Q.   Right.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Can I withdraw what I said before because it seems
    20        that ---
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What seems to have happened -----
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  -- Jagon Flint is different on the pay reviews.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What seems to have happened is during 1989
    27        there were pay reviews every two months and Mr. Perret gets
    28        a rise every other one, being sometimes five pence and on
    29        the 12th August he gets ten pence, but then Ms. Steel asked
    30        him about he gets pay rises in consecutive two months' pay
    31        reviews but they are just five pence.
    32
    33   MS. STEEL:   In actual fact, the first one says that it is not a
    34        pay review, if you look in the box in the top corner.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  My recollection of the evidence is that in
    37        those days, or whatever it was, every other one is not a
    38        pay review.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is why I was speaking.  You had them
    41        every two months, and every other one was a pay review.  So
    42        you had three pay reviews a year.  But that does not seem
    43        strictly to have been followed with Mr. Perret.  It does
    44        seem to be during the early part, you see, of 1989.  Then,
    45        as Ms. Steel has pointed out, October was not a pay review,
    46        although he got a rise.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  It seems that Jagon Flint was still -- well, on the
    49        face of the documents -- getting a pay -- the document is
    50        dated every two months throughout 1991, so I do not know if 
    51        that was the year that it changed, if it changed. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There we are.  I take your point to be that
    54        although there is a 10 pence rise on one of them, that you
    55        can do very well indeed by most people's standards and
    56        still get just five pence, although Mr. Perret does get
    57        five pence on two consecutive ones, one not being a pay
    58        review, and he does get 10 pence in August of 1989.  There
    59        we are.  When I make those comments, I am referring to the
    60        narrative account rather than the percentages, because

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