Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 78


     
     1        scheduling a 17 year old woman for a shift which is going
     2        to go until 11.00 or midnight that the program will refuse
     3        to accept that?
     4        A.  That is not the hunter, sorry.
     5
     6   Q.   I know that is not the hunter.  I appreciate that.  But
     7        what are putting into the computer is the whole shift,
     8        including the end time, and it is end time which falls foul
     9        of the law and that the computer, therefore, refuses to
    10        accept?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   But when you are clocking in on the clocking in machine,
    14        all you are doing, although, no doubt, things have changed
    15        substantially since my day, putting a card in a slot and
    16        pressing a button, or something of that kind?
    17        A.  Certainly, yes.
    18
    19   Q.   That is just recording the beginning of the shift?
    20        A.  That is right.
    21
    22   Q.   So it is maybe recording, for instance, 4.00 p.m.?
    23        A.  Yes.
    24
    25   Q.   So there is nothing wrong with starting work at 4 p.m. if
    26        you are a 17 year old woman.
    27        A.  No.
    28
    29   Q.   Where does the hunter register that something has gone
    30        wrong?  Is it when you clock out at 11.00 or whatever?
    31        A.  It would not allow the crew member to clock out past
    32        the 10 o'clock period.  It would flash up -- when the
    33        report came out from the hunter, it would flash up an
    34        asterisk which would highlight both to the restaurant and
    35        to the payroll at Head Office that somebody -----
    36
    37   Q.   It would print an asterisk on the card, would it?
    38        A.  Sorry, by the "hunter" is the computerised method ---
    39
    40   Q.   Yes.
    41        A.  -- of clocking in and clocking out.
    42
    43   Q.   Yes, but where does it register its asterisk?
    44        A.  Oh, on a computer printer.  What you do, the hunter is
    45        a wall mounted bracket.  You take the hunter out, put a
    46        plug in one side of the hunter, plug it into the printer
    47        and print out the details for the day as part of the
    48        closing thing, and then -----
    49
    50   Q.   Right, that will put an asterisk against something which 
    51        has broken the law you are saying? 
    52        A.  Yes, that is right.  Also, it is attached to a modem 
    53        which is rung at 1.00 or 2 o'clock in the morning from Head
    54        Office, and it generates a report which it also asterisks
    55        anything that contravenes the law or McDonald's policy.
    56
    57   Q.   I understand now.  It did not prevent you clocking them on
    58        for a shift which might go beyond the legal hours.  What it
    59        did was register a breach of the law ----
    60        A.  That is right.

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