Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 41
1 A. That is correct.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that is all I have to ask about overtime.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. We will break off now and resume at
6 2 o'clock.
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8 (Luncheon Adjournment)
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Rampton, I have to rise at 10 past 3 or
11 thereabouts. I am sorry it means we will lose an hour or
12 so of the afternoon, but I do not propose to say anything
13 more.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Stein, the last topic we dealt with before the
16 adjournment was overtime. I now want to ask you about
17 something about the age of your hourly paid workforce. Am
18 I right in thinking that a substantial proportion of those
19 that work in the restaurants are aged 19 or less?
20 A. That is correct.
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22 Q. Roughly, what proportion is of that age category?
23 A. Approximately 48 per cent.
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25 Q. So that the remaining 52 per cent, this follows, are aged
26 20 or more?
27 A. That is correct.
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29 Q. If I am a college student and I work for McDonald's during
30 my college vacations, yes?
31 A. Yes.
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33 Q. How many college vacations generally are there in a year in
34 the United States?
35 A. Oh OK. It varies between institutions, but in
36 general -- I will give you my experience which will
37 probably be pretty typical -- you would start in September
38 and go fairly way through into December. There may be some
39 holidays, if you will, during that period, like in the US
40 there is a Thanks Giving and you generally get a Wednesday
41 through the weekend then, but then you have a Christmas
42 break which is really the long period and it is usually
43 several weeks. Then you come back for exams. Then you
44 similarly have another break of a few weeks after that.
45 Then you begin your second semester. Generally there is a
46 spring break of some duration, a week or two weeks. Then
47 you are into your exam period, of course, holidays again in
48 between. Then you have a summer off. The summer generally
49 would run from May into late August or September. That is
50 in general.
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52 Q. Suppose that we start in September and run through to the
53 following September, ending at the end of August, suppose
54 I am a college student and during that year work during my
55 vacations at McDonald's but not otherwise, and suppose
56 therefore that I am recorded on the payroll record each
57 time I depart and go back to college as a lever. When
58 I return for my next spell at work at McDonald's the next
59 break of vacation, do I come back at the same rate of pay
60 as I left or at the starting rate?
