Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 33


     
     1   Q.   -- something which appears to be what you wrote to the job
     2        centre, or whatever its proper title is or was, and then
     3        there appears a little introduction explaining why you are
     4        being asked various questions, and the questions which are
     5        asked, and then at page 29 a note from you saying your
     6        answers in some instances are too long to get on the form.
     7        A.  I typed it all out, yes.
     8
     9   Q.   So you put them on the enclosed pages with the relevant
    10        numbers.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  Well -----
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The most sensible thing -- as it is all going
    15        on to the transcript to which people may want to refer in
    16        due course for the complete evidence -- is just to read the
    17        question and then read the answer.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  OK.  What I will do is read out -----
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you want to read it out at all, rather
    22        than just have it taken as read.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I will just read out your signed statement of
    25        22nd November 1994 on page 26.  It is a letter to the
    26        Employment Benefit Office.
    27
    28        "I left my job training for the following reasons.  Being a
    29        shift running manager in McDonald's, I was expected to take
    30        responsibility for staff and customers on my shifts.  These
    31        shifts were very often inadequately staffed, affecting
    32        safety.  Produce that was often out of date had to be used
    33        when there was no fresh produce available.  This made me
    34        personally liable on my shifts.  Other safety aspects
    35        included incorrectly wired grills.  These had to be
    36        disconnected from the RCD safety circuit in order to get
    37        them to work.  So I was always in the dilemma of risking
    38        electric shock or not cooking any food.  This is still
    39        going on over a year after the safety circuits were
    40        installed.  McDonald's expected me to take responsibility,
    41        but did not give me the equipment or staff to do so."
    42
    43        Do you stand by that statement you made?
    44        A.  Yes, yes.  I would say, if I can, that, you know, at
    45        the time I made a point of -- I think I am quite
    46        melodramatic in that statement, because I was worried about
    47        not getting benefit, I was worried about McDonald's saying
    48        things.  So it would not be these stores were very often
    49        inadequately staffed; I would say, you know, like
    50        I illustrated afterwards, one in three of the shifts would 
    51        be understaffed.  But everything else on there, yes, 
    52        I would agree with. 
    53
    54   Q.   Going to the questions that they asked you in the follow-up
    55         -- that is, the employment office asked you -- question 1:
    56         "What final incident at work prompted you to leave when
    57        you did on 9th November?"  Answer: "I finally resigned my
    58        position on 9th November, when I came in to run the night
    59        shift and found that I had once again been scheduled a
    60        completely inadequate number of staff to run the shift

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