Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 43
1 Q. You do, do you?
2 A. Yes.
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4 Q. What was your, roughly speaking again, on average, annual
5 turnover at Colchester when you were there in the mid 80s?
6 A. Approximately about 130, 140. That is very much a
7 guess, I would imagine.
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9 Q. Amongst that 130, 140 per cent have you any idea how many
10 of those people were people that had worked at McDonald's
11 before, maybe Colchester, maybe somewhere else, that left
12 and came back?
13 A. I would not even like to hazard a guess. A proportion,
14 but I would not have said it was a huge proportion.
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16 Q. Are there any or were there any tertiary educational
17 establishments in Colchester in those days?
18 A. Tertiary?
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20 Q. I mean, after school, college?
21 A. Certainly, yes. The 6th form college and there was
22 Essex University on the outskirts of the town.
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24 Q. Did you have any people from those establishments working
25 for you?
26 A. Yes, we had a number of people from both those
27 establishments working for us.
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29 Q. Would they tend to work during the term or during the
30 vacations or both?
31 A. Both.
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33 Q. If a person -- and I am now asking for your experience of
34 McDonald's as a whole, your personal experience -- if a
35 person has previously worked at a McDonald's restaurant
36 then, I do not know, leaves to go and have a baby or leaves
37 to go back to college, or something like that, and then
38 comes back to work again, whether at the same restaurant or
39 another one, what rate of pay do they restart at?
40 A. Restart at the pay rate that they left.
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42 Q. If the basic, which is set by the Company nationally, has
43 gone up during the interim while they have been away?
44 A. They would start at that basic rate, unless they come
45 to some agreement with the Manager who wanted to update
46 them and maybe give them a proportional rise rate, although
47 that would -- he would not be obliged to do that, although
48 to be reasonable, and personally myself as a Manager, if
49 I was being reasonable and I thought the person was a good
50 person, then I may well do that, although I am not obliged
51 to.
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53 Q. So if they carried any increases away with them and,
54 basically, it has gone up in the meantime, would they
55 preserve the increase when they came back or not?
56 A. Not necessarily. I mean, it depends on how long they
57 were away for and whether they had expressed, you know,
58 that they wanted to come back. So, for instance, if it
59 was, for the student who had gone away for the holidays or
60 gone away for the term time then, yes, they would. But if
