Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 44


     
     1        ebb and flow of customer demand moves during the day.  You
     2        have your high hours and your low hours.
     3
     4   Q.   I have just a little bit of difficulty with the whole
     5        concept of part-time and full-time workers when there is
     6        not a contract to work so many hours a week.  I can see
     7        that if you sign someone on and say you are going to work a
     8        35 hour week, and they work seven hours a day, five days a
     9        week, that, I understand, might be thought to be full-time
    10        employment.  Someone doing a similar job might work four
    11        hours in the morning for five days week and work 20 hours,
    12        and that would be in their contract and that would be
    13        part-time work.
    14
    15        But all full-time and part-time, it seems to me, to
    16        McDonald's means that full-time workers will normally work
    17        39 hours or thereabouts and the part-time workers will
    18        normally work significantly less hours?
    19        A.  Yes.
    20
    21   Q.   But the one who normally works about 39 may equally well
    22        only work 20 some weeks, and the one who is normally
    23        part-time might equally well work 39 some weeks?
    24        A.  If they indicate that they wish to do that, that is
    25        possible.
    26
    27   Q.   If they wanted to?
    28        A.  Absolutely.
    29
    30   Q.   You do not put them in a part-time box or a little
    31        full-time box?
    32        A.  No, we ask them to indicate when they are taken on what
    33        hours they would like to work on which days of the week.
    34        As far as possible, we try to accommodate that.  Then they
    35        can vary that themselves, at their own request.
    36
    37   MS. STEEL:  Do any of the hourly paid workers have guaranteed
    38        hours?
    39        A.  Those that have been taken on full-time are guaranteed
    40        full-time hours, 39 hours.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have misunderstood the situation then.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  So, whatever circumstances, the Company guarantees
    45        that they will be able to do 39 hours in a week?
    46        A.  Yes, if they have been taken on as full-time workers,
    47        they will be guaranteed that 39 hours.
    48
    49   Q.   Do they get a specific contract saying that?
    50        A.  No, they have indicated on their initial application 
    51        form what hours they want to work. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I do not think that is quite what
    54        Ms. Steel is asking.  If they have done that, do you
    55        guarantee to pay them for 39 hours a week?
    56        A.  We guarantee them 39 hours work a week.
    57
    58   MS. STEEL:   Where would that be communicated to them ---
    59        A.  When they are taken on.
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