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1 there are many longstanding employees, including a core of
2 Crew Members who have been with the restaurant for five to
3 six years. There is a good package for employees joining
4 as Crew Members and the Company actively promotes employees
5 from within each restaurant and from within the
6 organisation as a whole. Bath itself is not a depressed
7 city, with many jobs available despite the economic
8 climate. Accordingly, if McDonald's treated its employees
9 as Logan suggests is the case, the employees would go and
10 work elsewhere".
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12 Are you happy for all that to stand as your
13 evidence-in-chief subject to the further answers you will
14 give to my supplementary -----
15 A. I am.
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17 Q. Mr. Richards, I think you have seen the couple of sheets of
18 paper Mr. Morris handed in with details of names and
19 various allegations -- you have had a chance to read that?
20 A. I have.
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22 Q. I think the simplest thing is I will go through each
23 individual person and ask you some questions about them and
24 also I may raise one or two matters.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is there a copy for Mr. Richards?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know if the witness has one. For the
29 moment it may be best it goes with Mr. Richards own
30 statement.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. (Handed)
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34 MR. ATKINSON: Sorry.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just for my own benefit, is the item in the
37 box at the bottom additional to Shelly Smith, a separate
38 one or part of the same?
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40 MR. ATKINSON: The stuff in the box I read is a general comment
41 on all of the people .....
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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45 MR. ATKINSON: Do you know any of these people first?
46 A. I do.
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48 Q. How many of them?
49 A. I recognise all of the names except Graham Picking who
50 I do not recall.
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52 Q. Are they at the Bath store?
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54 MR. MORRIS: I believe it was 1991, if that is any help.
55 A. I am sorry, I do not recall the name.
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57 MR. ATKINSON: Have they been or are they at the Bath
58 McDonald's?
59 A. Some have been working for us and have left and some
60 are still working for us.
