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     1        doing.  That would also help to -- mean that someone, say,
     2        a Floor Manager, would then receive a percentage increase
     3        as opposed to an absolute pence figure.
     4
     5   Q.   If you did (and I do not know whether you will or whether
     6        you will not) change to a percentage basis for increases,
     7        would that help to preserve differentials as well?
     8        A.  Yes, I think it would because then people would be
     9        receiving an increase based on their rate, a percentage of
    10        that, otherwise you can get compression between the rates,
    11        perhaps, for the more senior staff.
    12
    13   Q.   The only other thing I need to ask you about, Ms. Mead is
    14        this:  In 1991 for the first time in this country, at
    15        least, McDonald's introduced a capping or maximum rate that
    16        was obtainable for any given post?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   Do you remember that?
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   I can show you the document, if you want, but that was the
    23        first time it had happened.  Do you know what the reason
    24        was, why it was decided to put a cap on the most a person
    25        can earn in any given position?
    26        A.  Well, again I think as time goes on we have more people
    27        remaining with us that what you need to do is to make sure
    28        that you have a structure that makes sense, so you have not
    29        got people necessarily at different levels, their earnings
    30        outstripping each other.  So, it is to try to make some
    31        sense of it, because what you find when you actually deal
    32        with this on the ground is that otherwise you can have
    33        unfairness, perceived unfairness, by employees built into
    34        things because they will feel that someone else is earning
    35        more than them and, perhaps, should not be.
    36
    37   Q.   Because they are junior?
    38        A.  Yes, that is right, because they do not have as much
    39        experience and so on.  So, you know, the different job
    40        levels need to be structured in a logical way.
    41
    42   Q.   Do you foresee any immediate or imminent change in this
    43        area of pay by McDonald's, or is it just something that is
    44        being looked at?
    45        A.  I do not whether a change is imminent, but it is
    46        something that we are reviewing at the moment.
    47
    48   Q.   Thank you, Ms. Mead.  Let me just check through to see if
    49        there is anything I should have asked you about and have
    50        not.  There is one thing (and I apologise to you personally 
    51        for this), did you in 1991, you personally, receive the 
    52        President's Award? 
    53        A.  Yes, I did.
    54
    55   Q.   I do not know mean from the United States of America,
    56        I mean from within McDonald's, yes?
    57        A.  Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   What is that for?
    60        A.  It is for excellence at work, excellent performance.

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