Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 69
1 Saturday, so they have time available to work and it is a
2 heavy day for McDonald's, so you have plenty of work to
3 provide?
4 A. Right.
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6 Q. But if you have an evening shift from 4.00 until 11.00,
7 I can imagine a student, who could easily finish his daily
8 studies by 4 o'clock and get in any sporting activity he
9 wanted to enjoy by then, would be quite prepared to work
10 two or three days a week from 4.00 to 11.00 and maybe even
11 the close on until 1 o'clock if he or she needed the
12 money. If there was a pattern, that is what Mr. Morris
13 needs to know.
14 A. OK.
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16 Q. But the picture I am getting, rightly or wrongly, the whole
17 point of what McDonald's says is it suits them to have
18 flexible part-time workers, and there are all sorts of
19 people in this country whom it suits also to be able to
20 slot in a few hours now and again at times that suit them.
21 Is there a particular pattern apart from the Saturday
22 point?
23 A. Apart from the Saturday in terms of our business,
24 I would say not on a typical week. The only pattern that
25 would arise is if you came to me and said you were only
26 available Tuesdays and Thursdays in terms of your studies
27 because Wednesday afternoon was a sporting activity, or if
28 you were working during the day because Tuesdays and
29 Thursdays, or Monday, Wednesday and Friday your child, for
30 example, may be at child minders or day nursery.
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32 So, that the only pattern as such would be the person
33 themselves in the day or weekly routine that they worked.
34 Outside of the Saturday, there was no real routine for a
35 part-time only.
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37 MR. MORRIS: Students that take on work in evenings and
38 Saturdays -- we are talking about full-time students in
39 general, are we, like, for example -----
40 A. Full-time academic?
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42 Q. Yes.
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. So they would have to be pretty desperate for money, would
46 they not, if they, effectively, have a full-time job being
47 students and then they are prepared to work evenings and
48 Saturdays as well?
49 A. Well, I think you do a great disservice to a whole
50 number of students out there and probably myself included,
51 because it was not a matter of being desperate. It is a
52 matter of people paying for their studies, trying to pay
53 their way through. I spent three years going through
54 university outside of grants, and I do not believe they are
55 around nowadays, but I still had to pay for my own food and
56 sustenance, so to speak.
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58 Q. So they have no choice, have they?
59 A. They have to work?
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