Day 119 - 02 May 95 - Page 64
1 MR. MORRIS: 50 per cent. I cannot remember whether we based it
2 on these figures. You said something like there were 1,600
3 salaried staff in the UK.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you look above the 50.1.
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7 MR. MORRIS: OK, yes.
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9 THE WITNESS: 1,594.
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11 MR. MORRIS: At this time there were 1,600 salaried staff?
12 A. That is operational staff. But that is all you are
13 interested in at the moment.
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15 Q. Yes, for crew to be promoted to.
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. Half of those, about 800 or something, let us say for the
19 sake of argument?
20 A. 798.
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22 Q. The situation now is likely to be something similar, is it?
23 A. I cannot say with certainty, but I would have thought
24 it would still be in that ballpark.
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26 Q. Do you remember approximately what the staff numbers might
27 have been around that time?
28 A. Total staff numbers?
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30 Q. Yes around about 1989/90?
31 A. 1,594 in Operations -- about 2,300.
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33 Q. I mean the total number of employees in the whole company?
34 A. It would be somewhere around about 28,000, 30,000,
35 somewhere in that figure.
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37 Q. At that time?
38 A. Yes.
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40 Q. So, let us say something like ----
41 A. Perhaps a little less than that. This was compiled in
42 1990. We are somewhere around about 30,000, 31,000 now,
43 but our employment figures have not gone up quite as
44 dramatically because we franchise so many stores. So there
45 are a lot of people out there that do not work for
46 McDonald's that are working in McDonald's restaurants.
47
48 Q. Do we know roughly what the total staff at that time, total
49 crew ----
50 A. I would have thought I would stick to 28,000, somewhere
51 around there.
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53 Q. So let us say something like 26,000 hourly paid staff,
54 something at that time, yes?
55 A. Yes.
56
57 Q. Of which 800 -----
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It probably will not make any difference, but
60 how have you got down to -----
