Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 63


     
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     2   Q.   But you did not actually compile that yourself?
     3        A.  No.
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     5   Q.   Page 12.
     6        A.  We participated -- we, McDonald's.
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     8   Q.   But you personally did not compile that page 12 yourself?
     9        A.  No.
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    11   MS. STEEL:  So, basically, if you did not compile the
    12        information about the reasons why crew were leaving prior
    13        to 1992, there is a basic position that the Company was not
    14        particularly interested in why people were leaving before
    15        that then?
    16        A.  No, that is not the case.  We checked it on audits and
    17        so on.  I think the thing that may be -- if it is not rude
    18        to say it -- you are missing is that we have not always had
    19        the ease of computerised information that we have now.
    20        Frankly, we do not have it in quite the ease that people
    21        might expect as we talked about this morning with that
    22        other document.
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    24        So, sometimes it is a feature that the information existed
    25        but it was not so easy to generate it in a manageable
    26        form.  So, certainly people still looked at reasons for
    27        leaving before that time, and it may be that it was
    28        possible to pull off some crew data.  What I said was we
    29        did not have reports of that sort and I do not recollect
    30        ever having seen any because it was not easily available
    31        and so it was dealt with in different ways and looked at
    32        via different methods.
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    34   Q.   Mr. Nicholson said that we should ask you about how Head
    35        Office tells which crew are part-time and which are
    36        full-time.  Perhaps you could tell us how Head Office does
    37        tell?
    38        A.  What do you mean by that?
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    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How does Head Office categorise people into
    41        part-time or full-time workers?  So far as we have gathered
    42        so far, there is not any label categorisation in the sense
    43        that someone has on their file the category "part-time" or
    44        "full-time" unless you tell us that there is such a
    45        thing.
    46        A.  Right.
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    48   Q.   So, when you are coming to conclusions about what
    49        percentage are part-time and what are full-time, for
    50        instance, how do you put people in one box rather than the 
    51        other? 
    52        A.  Right.  We would tend to do it from the reports of 
    53        hours worked.  That would be the way.  When you said "Head
    54        Office" because different people know different things, so
    55        I am not sure what the reference was before to what
    56        Mr. Nicholson said.
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    58   Q.   No, but where do you draw the line or do you draw it in
    59        different places for different purposes?
    60        A.  Yes, we do actually.  Again some things are linked back

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