Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 68
1 toasters.
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3 Q. Is that something that happens all the time, or what?
4 A. Very rarely.
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6 Q. Very rarely. Can you remember who it was that you spoke to
7 from management about the complaints about undercooked
8 quarter pounders and chicken products?
9 A. I cannot remember the specific Manager, no, not really.
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11 Q. You do not remember whether it was Sean Richards?
12 A. It could be; more likely it would be salaried -- it
13 could be Sean or it could have been Ian or the Store
14 Manager at the time. I cannot remember. More likely to
15 have been a salaried than a Floor Manager.
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17 Q. Right.
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19 MR. MORRIS: Can I withdraw what I said before because it seems
20 that ---
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What seems to have happened -----
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24 MR. MORRIS: -- Jagon Flint is different on the pay reviews.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What seems to have happened is during 1989
27 there were pay reviews every two months and Mr. Perret gets
28 a rise every other one, being sometimes five pence and on
29 the 12th August he gets ten pence, but then Ms. Steel asked
30 him about he gets pay rises in consecutive two months' pay
31 reviews but they are just five pence.
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33 MS. STEEL: In actual fact, the first one says that it is not a
34 pay review, if you look in the box in the top corner.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. My recollection of the evidence is that in
37 those days, or whatever it was, every other one is not a
38 pay review.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is why I was speaking. You had them
41 every two months, and every other one was a pay review. So
42 you had three pay reviews a year. But that does not seem
43 strictly to have been followed with Mr. Perret. It does
44 seem to be during the early part, you see, of 1989. Then,
45 as Ms. Steel has pointed out, October was not a pay review,
46 although he got a rise.
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48 MR. MORRIS: It seems that Jagon Flint was still -- well, on the
49 face of the documents -- getting a pay -- the document is
50 dated every two months throughout 1991, so I do not know if
51 that was the year that it changed, if it changed.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There we are. I take your point to be that
54 although there is a 10 pence rise on one of them, that you
55 can do very well indeed by most people's standards and
56 still get just five pence, although Mr. Perret does get
57 five pence on two consecutive ones, one not being a pay
58 review, and he does get 10 pence in August of 1989. There
59 we are. When I make those comments, I am referring to the
60 narrative account rather than the percentages, because
