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     1        presto, they would have lost some or all of their
     2        differential again?
     3        A.  Not necessarily that unusual.  I mean, it is almost
     4        20 per cent, according to these figures here; one-fifth of
     5        the work force would probably stay.
     6
     7   Q.   All right.
     8        A.  I find it difficult to extrapolate back 10 years
     9        because, obviously, your original argument is that the
    10        turnover is improved.  By what banded proportion is
    11        obviously not for me to discuss.
    12
    13   Q.   We have something like 196.5 per cent turnover in 1989.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You know, I am going to ask you to leave
    16        this, because all you are doing is rehearsing with
    17        Mr. Stanton that which I have already taken on board with
    18        another witness, and which is argument to me, anyway.  If
    19        there was some particular point where you thought
    20        Mr. Stanton could add, well and good.  But I think you
    21        accept, yourself, that you are just illustrating the point
    22        with this witness, as you did in the past.
    23
    24        I mean, if you wanted to ask Mr. Stanton if he can
    25        remember, when he was at Colchester, what proportion of the
    26        part-time crew -- which is around 70 per cent of the crew
    27        anyway -- were 10p 20p or 30p above basic, then do.  You do
    28        not have to ask him that.  But if it is a question of
    29        deduction from facts which are common ground, I can do it
    30        for myself.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  (To the witness)  When somebody moves to
    33        another store, they -- I will start again.  Everybody has a
    34        payroll number nationally, a different number?
    35        A.  Yes.
    36
    37   Q.   And everybody's pay records are on computer -- of all the
    38        McDonald's controlled stores; yes?
    39        A.  OK, yes.
    40
    41   Q.   The computer is capable of printing out what their wage
    42        rates are for that individual person?  Say you were in a
    43        store and you wanted to know what person's -- obviously, if
    44        you are the store manager, you would know that anyway --
    45        say you wanted to type in a person's number, you could get
    46        a printout of their wage rates are, to check it is correct
    47        at Central Office, or whatever?
    48        A.  As a supervisor?
    49
    50   Q.   Supervisor or manager.  What I am saying is that ----- 
    51        A.  Sorry, I am saying, are you saying in my time as a 
    52        supervisor could I do that?  I do not understand the 
    53        question.
    54
    55   Q.   Since the computerised records of payroll exist, you have
    56        the ability in a store to type in -- or anywhere in the
    57        country, presumably -- anyone, whether it is the manager or
    58        the supervisor, or Paul Preston, can go into a store and
    59        tap out somebody's payroll number and they would get some
    60        kind of information on the screen about how long they had

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