Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 70
1 Q. Yes.
2 A. Well, that is not a question for me, surely?
3
4 Q. You claim to know about the motivation of your crew members
5 in any number of fields of activity in your stores?
6 A. We do not ask them a question about: Why do you want
7 to work for us?
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9 Q. No, but you take advantage of the fact that they have to
10 take work in addition to their academic work, do you not?
11 A. We are dealing with some sort of 20 year old under
12 graduates who are more mature individuals who know their
13 own life, who are not going to be unduly influenced by a
14 Restaurant Manager or an Assistant Manager or a Floor
15 Manager of 17 years of age telling them how they should
16 conduct themselves.
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18 I think you are doing them a great disservice by trying to
19 paint them in a picture of they have no hold over their
20 future and their destiny. They have always struck me, and
21 the people that I employed at Leicester were highly
22 motivated, intelligent people, who I had to treat properly
23 to make sure they came back and were treated in a way that
24 was respectful of them as individuals.
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26 Q. Of your part-timers at Leicester what percentage were
27 students then?
28 A. Maybe 20 or 25, I would have thought probably, if I can
29 recall accurately. I guess that would be a mixture of
30 students -- are you talking university students,
31 polytechnic students or -----
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33 Q. That 20, 25 per cent, are we talking about all kinds of
34 students, that would be the percentage, would it?
35 A. No, I mean, we had people who had Saturday jobs who
36 were at -- yes, in terms of absolute numbers, maybe 25
37 people.
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39 Q. What do you mean, "people had Saturday jobs"?
40 A. Well, you are allowed to employ people for certain
41 hours per day, I think no more than sort of four hours a
42 day. It is not my brief but there are people who have
43 Saturday jobs.
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45 Q. At McDonald's?
46 A. Who just work on a Saturday?
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48 Q. At McDonald's?
49 A. Yes.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And anywhere else are you saying?
52 A. Excuse me?
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54 Q. And anywhere else, are you saying? What is the
55 significance of a Saturday job to you?
56 A. No, I was just saying they just work on a Saturday.
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58 MR. MORRIS: At McDonald's?
59 A. They are not available -- as we can have students who
60 are available who might want to work the Wednesday night or
