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1 situation; they were very pleased to be able to have a job
2 in the holiday times where they could earn money, and also
3 a job that they often returned to the following holidays.
4 We did not have a monopoly on the labour market. There was
5 a large number of places they could have returned or gone
6 to work with, and I would like to consider that they came
7 back because they enjoyed doing the work.
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9 Q. And they needed the money?
10 A. They worked (1) because they enjoyed it and (2),
11 I would assume, because they wanted to be paid, yes.
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13 Q. Just going on to paragraph 35, you say you recall that
14 Adrian Brett was a reasonable floor manager and it probably
15 was suggested to him that he would have a good chance of
16 being a salaried manager. Is that correct?
17 A. That is what I wrote there, yes.
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19 Q. Is it correct? Is that what you believe?
20 A. Yes, although the statement is slightly misleading in
21 the fact that he would have to have been 20 before he would
22 have been able to be a salaried manager, or 21. Therefore,
23 he would not still have been at school at the point where
24 he became a salaried manager.
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26 Q. So he had reached a kind of level of competence and ---
27 A. He might have done.
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29 Q. -- and confidence from management higher up, to which he
30 looked like someone that would be suitable for a salaried
31 manager, but he would have to wait for that?
32 A. No, I would not say that specifically. He was a
33 reasonable floor manager, and it may have been suggested --
34 he actually went salaried after I had left the
35 restaurant -- and it may have been suggested to him at that
36 point that he may have been good enough to be a salaried
37 manager. As far as being persuaded to give up school,
38 I have no recollection of that happening.
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40 Q. I do not know if this is a misprint or not, in your
41 point 36, the allegation of breaks being completed by
42 4 p.m.? I do not know whether it is misprint in your one
43 or Mr. Alimi's, but his -----
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45 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, page 11 of Mr. Alimi's statement, 7 p.m.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Thank you, yes. Would that sound like more
48 relative time for breaks to be planned to being completed
49 by, generally, for the evening shifts, for breaks to be
50 finished, and Mr. Alimi said by 7?
51 A. No. Generally, I would have expected them to be more
52 evenly spread out through the evening, especially as the 4
53 till 6 period was probably, generally, the busier time of
54 the evening period; that is the teatime.
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56 Q. You say you cannot recall -- I am sorry. 37, the last
57 line -- you cannot recall Siamak complaining about anything
58 during his time at McDonald's?
59 A. I cannot, no.
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