Day 124 - 10 May 95 - Page 32
1 McDonald's food?
2 A. I believe they are one of the laboratories. I am not
3 immediately conversant on the use of the lab.
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5 Q. Do you know anything about them being prosecuted for
6 falsifying information in the past?
7 A. I am not knowledgeable on that.
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9 Q. You said when you were here before last July that you had
10 seen statistics on the length of time that employees at
11 McDonald's work before leaving, not just annual turnover
12 statistics, but on the length of time of stay of
13 employees. I cannot remember whether we asked you to look
14 into it further or not, but do you know where those
15 statistics are kept or those reports?
16 A. I believe that the only statistics that we would have,
17 the Company would keep, would be those that would be fairly
18 current, fairly current being within the last few years.
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20 Q. That would be the Personnel Department or would it be
21 Operations?
22 A. Human Resources, Personnel, would keep some reports but
23 again they would be fairly current. I mean, anything that
24 would be old, stale would not be useful. As I indicated in
25 the past, we do not keep a lot of information around.
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27 Q. You did not since last July look into those documents
28 specifically?
29 A. I have done no further research on that; I do not
30 believe you had asked me to.
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32 Q. I do not think I did ask you on that particular one. Does
33 McDonald's monitor environmental matters which their
34 business might affect? That was a very badly worded
35 question.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have to be more precise than that and say
38 what you mean by "monitor". Put a particular topic, if it
39 is important, to Mr. Beavers and say what you mean by
40 "monitoring".
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42 MR. MORRIS: Yes. (To the witness): For example, if a
43 particular paper mill was known to be damaging the
44 environment in a serious way and McDonald's paper was
45 sourced from there, and it came to the notice of
46 McDonald's, would that be something which would concern
47 McDonald's?
48 A. Yes, it would.
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50 Q. What I mean by "monitoring" is does it rely on the chance
51 sight by an executive of an article in the newspaper for an
52 environmental matter to come to your Company's attention,
53 or is there some kind of systematic way of being aware of
54 problems that may be relevant to your Company?
55 A. Our Quality Assurance would extend to those products
56 and services that would be supplied to McDonald's or would
57 be in the chain of supply of a product that we would --
58 that our restaurants would receive. Beyond that there
59 would not be any monitoring of environmental matters.
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