Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 19
1 Q. What percentage?
2 A. Oh, I do not know. You have a somewhere in the
3 documents the analysis of the hours worked. That will give
4 you some indication.
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6 Q. What do you know from your experience?
7 A. What do I know from my experience of what?
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9 Q. Of how often it happens?
10 A. I cannot answer that question. I am aware there are
11 occasions when people work overtime. I take it as read
12 that those people are paid a rate which meets the
13 requirements of the Wages Council order. Human Resource
14 officers operational supervisors, are regularly checking to
15 ensure that that is so.
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17 MR. MORRIS: From your experience how often have you seen people
18 working over 39 hours a week? Does it happen every week in
19 every store?
20 A. From my personal experience I have never seen anybody
21 work over 39 hours a week. I am not there. I have to go
22 on paper work.
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24 Q. So when you were Head of Personnel?
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. In charge of matters such as this, what was your awareness,
28 as far as you can remember, of, as you are giving evidence
29 on this subject, on oath, what was your actual recollection
30 of what percentage approximately? Are we talking about one
31 person per store per week?
32 A. I have no idea. I cannot answer that question. When
33 I took over the Personnel Department we had something like
34 116 restaurants. By that time I came out of Human
35 Resources 1991 -- we probably ---
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Listen to the answer Mr. Morris and then ----
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39 THE WITNESS: -- we probably had something like 480 restaurants.
40 My personal knowledge of what each individual worked is
41 very, very small. In fact I have no knowledge what of
42 every individual worked; I just go off reports.
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44 MR. MORRIS: What did the reports say?
45 A. I cannot remember now. I really cannot remember.
46
47 Q. So you cannot give evidence in this court about conditions
48 in McDonald's stores except for just some
49 impressionistic -----
50 A. No, I visited stores. I have been on rap sessions,
51 I have been on crew meetings. We have discussed these
52 things. They have come up. I am reasonably satisfied that
53 everyone out there was satisfied with their hours of work
54 and their conditions of service.
55
56 Q. Are you aware that overtime by law is one and a half times
57 of whatever your hourly wage is, not what the minimum wage
58 is. So if your hourly wage---
59 A. No it is not.
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