Day 137 - 19 Jun 95 - Page 38


     
     1        benefit programmes.
     2
     3   Q.   What is the staff canteen at Oak Brook?  What sort of an
     4        establishment is it?
     5        A.  Our lunch facility?
     6
     7   Q.   Yes, what is it?
     8        A.  It is a McDonald's Restaurant.
     9
    10   Q.   It is a McDonald's Restaurant.  Do you get free food there?
    11        A.  No, I do not.
    12
    13   Q.   One thing I do want to ask you about while we are on rates
    14        of pay:  You have told us that there is no uniform starting
    15        rate?
    16        A.  That is correct.
    17
    18   Q.   Are the starting rates at McDonald's in America in any
    19        sense related to the age of the person?
    20        A.  No, they are not.  Your pay would vary, based upon
    21        experience and qualifications, but it is not age-rated
    22        whatsoever.
    23
    24   Q.   What is the youngest age by law in America at which it is
    25        permissible for McDonald's to employ people?
    26        A.  14.
    27
    28   Q.   If I go to McDonald's, I am 54 odd, and I apply for my
    29        first job with no previous experience?
    30        A.  At age 54?
    31
    32   Q.   Yes, and somebody else goes at the same time aged 14 or 15,
    33        again with no experience, can I expect to get more than he
    34        or she does?
    35        A.  No, not at all.  If you have no experience, no, you
    36        would get the same as the 14 year old.
    37
    38   Q.   Another thing, perhaps a related topic:  Is there or was
    39        there something in the United States called the subminimum
    40        rate?
    41        A.  Yes, I am aware of the term and aware that under the
    42        Federal laws in the United States there is a subminimum
    43        wage.
    44
    45   Q.   So if the Federal Government says that for this year the
    46        minimum rate for the job is, let us say, $4.5 dollars -- it
    47        might be -- what is at the moment, do you know?
    48        A.  I am sorry?
    49
    50   Q.   Do you know what the Federal minimum wage is --- 
    51        A.  Oh, yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   -- at the moment?
    54        A.  Four and a quarter.
    55
    56   Q.   Four and a quarter?
    57        A.  Right.
    58
    59   Q.   That is for general purposes?
    60        A.  Yes, it is the minimum, absolute minimum.

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