Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 47
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2 MS. STEEL: No.
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4 MR. MORRIS: It came out on the transcript as "companies"
5 so .....
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7 MS. STEEL: It came out as "companies".
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9 MR. MORRIS: We just wanted to check.
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11 THE WITNESS: I might have said "countries".
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I said it can only be compared with other
14 countries and then I said McDonald's would have no right to
15 ask that firm to ask questions of other companies.
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17 MS. STEEL: Right.
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19 MR. MORRIS: I think we can leave that document, hopefully, most
20 of the documents.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I may say it now while it is on my mind,
23 you were asking for some help about your final speech, but
24 when you are coming to employment what you want to do is
25 look at all these documents again and take what conclusions
26 you think helpful to your case you can from them.
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28 All you need do is say: "We would submit, if one looks at
29 the document this, that or the other. We say that because
30 this document says 'X'; that says 'Y'; that one says 'Z'
31 and the obvious conclusion to be drawn is this". You can
32 do that off the face of the documents. If you think
33 documents go against what you are batting for, you can say:
34 "We ask you not to rely on that because" and then give me
35 your reason.
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37 What you have to do is look at all the ammunition you have
38 at the end of the day and distil from it the facts you
39 would seek to establish. You do not have to take the
40 witness through as if you were rehearsing in advance the
41 argument you would like to put forward.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Just one thing from one of the documents, I was
44 going to say , if you just go to E3 , bearing in mind the
45 length of service in the first two categories which
46 involves 13 per cent in the first quarter and 21 per cent
47 in the second quarter, length of service between 0 and two
48 months, it is not unusual for McDonald's workers to leave
49 after four or five weeks? It is not an unusual occurrence,
50 is it?
51 A. Well, no. The figures here show that we do have people
52 who have that sort of service and to leave with that length
53 of service and it is for some of the reasons that we went
54 through before.
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56 Q. OK. You can put that file to one side now. In your
57 examination-in-chief you mentioned how the information from
58 the personnel evaluation or the document which we looked at
59 before -- the one that had not been filled in but was done
60 by area Supervisors , that grades would be compared to the
