Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 51
1 they did. Each department head knew who he could allocate
2 responsibilities to, as long as he accepted that the final
3 responsibility would be his, accountablility to Paul
4 Preston or Bob Rae, depending upon what it was, would be
5 his or hers.
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7 Q. If somebody did go ahead without your authority and issued
8 a memo that was damaging to the Company, you would have to
9 take the responsibility for it, even if you had not seen
10 it?
11 A. Yes, I would accept responsibility. I cannot ever
12 remember in an occasion on which it happened in the
13 Personnel Department, but I would certainly accept
14 responsibility. I mean, it would be my lack of management
15 that allowed that memo to go out, so I would expect to take
16 back whatever brickbats followed.
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18 Q. Do you know anything about the letter to all store managers
19 in Germany in 1979 from the Personnel Office about not
20 hiring any union sympathisers?
21 A. All I know about that is what I have now read as a
22 result of seeking information you required me to do.
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24 MS. STEEL: What year was it that you became heavily involved in
25 the franchising?
26 A. 1984.
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28 Q. 1984?
29 A. Yes. I have got -- no, you ask your questions.
30 I started franchising, I started developing the Franchising
31 Department in 1984. I began looking for franchisees in
32 early 1985.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You said Hayes opened in 1986?
35 A. Hayes opened in 1986. I think I opened two restaurants
36 that year only, but then it developed from there. So the
37 workload increased as each year passed.
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39 MS. STEEL: Between 1984 and 1986, when the stores opened, you
40 were becoming more and more involved with the Franchise
41 Department?
42 A. I was developing paperwork -- the usual things when you
43 set up a department -- reports, procedures.
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45 Q. And less and less involved with the -----
46 A. Well, I tried to keep in touch in the early years, 84,
47 85, 86, with the Personnel because I had just taken it over
48 and I was extremely interested in it. But the the time it
49 got to 87, 88 and 89, I was looking for, may be, 12
50 franchisees a year. To find 12 franchisees a year I have
51 got to interview at least 120. I have got to paper sift 10
52 times that many. It is a lot of work.
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54 Q. That was the same for the Security Department?
55 A. That was the same for the Security Department. Terry
56 Carron would bring me serious cases which I would get
57 involved with, serious cases of crime, fraud, that kind of
58 thing, and I made sure I kept on top of those
59 investigations, but someone else did the leg work.
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