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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