Day 154 - 13 Jul 95 - Page 22
1 Department and say: "What is the correct procedure here?
2 How do we do it? How do we treat them?" We would get
3 advice that way. I do not think any manager would just
4 enter into a work experience scheme without having first
5 thoroughly discussed it with the Human Resources
6 Department.
7
8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It a tripartite responsibility, work
9 experience: the person whose workplace the youngster goes
10 to, the school which allows them to go there, and the
11 parent which allows them to go there?
12 A. That is right.
13
14 Q. In so far as the employer may know of a possible risk which
15 the parent or school could not anticipate, then I can see
16 that the person running the workplace may be in a better
17 position to judge the risk than the parents, or the parent,
18 or the school. But it is a tripartite responsibility, is
19 it not?
20 A. Certainly, I would agree with that, sir, yes. We have
21 actually got quite good relations with a lot of schools in
22 a lot of different areas, where the schools are very happy
23 when the children actually do come and work in the
24 restaurants.
25
26 MR. MORRIS: Your region is not any different from any other
27 region in that respect, as far as you know?
28 A. Not as far as I know.
29
30 Q. Mr. Siamak Alimi who was here, do you remember that he was
31 on the training squad? Do you remember him as part of the
32 training squad?
33 A. I believe he got to that position towards the back end.
34
35 Q. He would have to train all the new recruits, yes?
36 A. Yes, that would be one of his job functions, yes.
37
38 Q. Was there just one person doing that or were there two or
39 others doing that?
40 A. As I remember, probably had up to seven or eight
41 training squads in the restaurants. So any one of them
42 could be used to train other staff.
43
44 Q. Although it is not regular throughout the year, how many
45 people roughly each week would there be to train -- just a
46 rough guesstimate?
47 A. One or two.
48
49 Q. One or two each week?
50 A. Yes.
51
52 Q. So, say you had 60 a store and your turnover was 130 to 140
53 per cent ---
54 A. Yes.
55
56 Q. -- you would be getting something like 80 people a year,
57 something like that -- 80, 85?
58 A. Sounds roughly right as a calculation, yes.
59
60 Q. Would that relate to your one or two per week? That would
