Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 19
1 MR. MORRIS: The court has heard evidence -- I am sure it is
2 accepted by the Plaintiffs -- that all hourly paid
3 employees do get a leaving code that is on the computer,
4 and they are able to have printouts of percentages
5 nationally for people leaving for certain reasons?
6 A. In that case, I stand corrected then.
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8 Q. Really, you are quite out of touch with what is going on in
9 Operations now?
10 A. I am out of touch with Human Resources, I freely admit
11 that. But, in terms of Operations, I think that is a
12 somewhat difficult argument.
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14 Q. Where does Human Resources end and Operations start?
15 A. I really do not know. Where does Marketing start and
16 Human Resources end, and Marketing and Operations, and
17 Information? Operations is a real conglomerate of the
18 different support departments. You are involved with
19 people, you are involved with training, you market your
20 restaurants, you need business advice, you need computers.
21 It wraps up everything.
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23 Q. Who is your equivalent in Human Resources for the Midlands
24 and West area?
25 A. Who is my equivalent? Do you mean who runs the
26 regional Human Resources department?
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28 Q. Yes?
29 A. Jeanette Rowe.
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31 Q. When you are area supervisor, you deal with both Operations
32 and Human Resources, do you?
33 A. Do I deal -----
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35 Q. An area supervisor has to deal with both those -- whatever
36 they are -- headings; or do you have an area supervisor for
37 Human Resources as well as an area supervisor for -----
38 A. Yes. I suppose, in effect, you do have an area
39 supervisor for Human Resources, you are quite right.
40 I mean, they would have within the department -- I have got
41 field personnel officers, whose responsibilities -- I think
42 I have got three now, yes -- whose responsibilities are
43 split up within the region. So, in effect, yes, I suppose
44 you would have an area supervisor with a field of
45 responsibility for Human Resources.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would like you to think about just where we
48 are going now, because there is a limit to how much it
49 helps me to go into the minutiae of just what the
50 Operational or Human Resources or general executive system
51 is.
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53 MR. MORRIS: I am being a bit disturbed, because I am trying
54 to -----
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is it you are trying to find out?
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58 MR. MORRIS: I am trying to find out whether he can give
59 evidence about certain areas that he is not actually
60 responsible for or does not know anything about, and I am
