Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 31
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MR. RAMPTON: That was correct in 1986. If Mr. Morris would
2 care to refer Mr. Preston to the 1989 version, he will
find something rather different.
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MR. MORRIS: We are just establishing that document is
4 correct. Let us move on to another subject in total. You
can put this file away.
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Your company, you believe, has high standards ---
6 A. I believe it does, yes.
7 Q. -- all round, and I believe you said, but I will ask
again, if there are transgressions of your high standards
8 you would take them seriously?
A. I think we have demonstrated that in the past.
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Q. Yes. I think it was also said maybe by Mr. Rampton that
10 dishonesty amongst the employees was a sackable offence?
A. I do not know whether he said that or not.
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Q. Is it true?
12 A. If by dishonesty you mean stealing or something like
that, that would be a dismissable offence, yes.
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Q. Is dishonesty as a whole a sackable offence in your
14 organisation? I do not mean stealing, I mean dishonesty
in general.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you not give an example?
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MR. MORRIS: If somebody deliberately misled somebody else in
17 the corporation about what was happening, for example?
A. You mean, for example, if someone said to me: "I am
18 sick today and I am not coming to work" and, in reality,
they were not sick, is that a dismissable offence.
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Q. That is a good example. Would that be a sackable offence?
20 A. Probably not. There would probably be a warning
though. We would see what happened a second or a third
21 time, and if it carried on, where people were not telling
the truth, eventually they really have not only no part in
22 McDonald's but, I dare say, no part in many industries.
23 If someone falsified a document, and they said: "I am
going to do some crazy deal with a property developer and
24 try to profit from this myself and cost the company and
its shareholders its reputation", I think that would
25 probably be a dismissable offence; it would depend exactly
what it was, but stealing absolutely.
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Q. I just want to collect my thoughts for a couple of
27 minutes.
28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want a minute or two?
29 MISS STEEL: It would be helpful, I think, if we could have a
couple of minutes just to sort things out.
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MR. JUSTICE BELL: How long do you want?
