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1 schedule. "It will give you the basic skills in developing
2 a crew schedule for your restaurant". Then just below that
3 it says: "The UK Management and Crew Scheduling Programme
4 contains a step by step guide on how to complete a crew
5 schedule whether your restaurant completes the crew
6 schedule manually or by use of the ISP." Unfortunately,
7 this document does not say what the date of it is. It is
8 obviously not the whole of the management development
9 programme.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us see what information comes in the
12 morning.
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14 MR. MORRIS: If I can move on to the Towers and Perrin report of
15 the dispute over racist wage differentials in Philadelphia.
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17 MR. RAMPTON: I am sorry, I am not being discourteous, I hope.
18 I am trying to save time. With Mr. Morris' request for
19 this document in mind, when I was in Chicago last week
20 I personally made enquiries whether Towers and Perrin (even
21 were it disclosable which is an entirely separate question
22 which I do not need to argue in view of the information
23 which I now give your Lordship) had kept any copy of the
24 original report or any part of it. The answer is that they
25 did not.
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27 The reason that they did not was, as your Lordship,
28 I think, was told by Mr. Stein, they received the
29 information from the restaurants in confidence, and as soon
30 as McDonald's had got the report themselves Towers and
31 Perrin destroyed their own copy.
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33 I was also told that when Mr. Morris telephoned Towers and
34 Perrin he was told that if -- if -- Towers and Perrin --
35 that was sometime ago; that was while Mr. Stein was giving
36 evidence -- still had a copy, they would have it in
37 storage. Since then they have looked to see whether they
38 do and they do not; as your Lordship knows, McDonald's do
39 not have one either.
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41 MR. MORRIS: It gets curiouser and curiouser. Obviously, if the
42 Plaintiffs had destroyed their copies of the document and
43 now Towers and Perrin are saying, as an internationally
44 respected research organisation, they have not kept a copy
45 of a research document they did (which surprises me) there
46 are two possible things that I can say. I have not got
47 Mr. Marcheid's statement in front of me. The Plaintiffs
48 have made a Civil Evidence Act Notice -----
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: One of the notes I have made for my own
51 purpose is where Mr. Richard Marcheid's statement went.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: It went at the back of -- he is No. 42 in yellow
54 XIII.
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56 MR. MORRIS: I have not got a copy of Mr. Marcheid's statement
57 in front of me. I do not know if there is a spare one?
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I just want to read it. If someone has a
60 copy and you want to read it, perhaps you could, although
