Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 68


     
     1        What you must do is make a list of these matters which in
     2        final preparation of cross-examination you may come across
     3        which you are unhappy about and we will deal with them in
     4        due course.  But the phrase I have used is "on the hoof",
     5        and one cannot be having interlocutory arguments and
     6        judgments about discovery of this document and then an hour
     7        later discovery of the next document.  It is not an
     8        efficient or helpful way of conducting the trial.  So you
     9        must put them together and put them on the list and sort
    10        them out in order of importance with a view to doing what
    11        I suggested yesterday afternoon be done.
    12
    13   MS. STEEL:  Do employees at McDonald's, crew members, get
    14        contracts, employment contracts, for specified lengths of
    15        time?
    16        A.  For specified lengths of time?
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do crew members ever have fixed term
    19        contracts?
    20        A.  No, my Lord.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL:  Is it sometimes the case then that you take people
    23        on for -- you specify it is only for three months
    24        employment, or something like that?
    25        A.  Not that I know of.
    26
    27   Q.   If you could just get pink volume XI, please.
    28        A.  Yes.
    29
    30   Q.   If you turn to page 17?
    31        A.  In?
    32
    33   Q.   Tab 1.
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   Q.   Right at the bottom of that page, "Employees not eligible
    37        for statutory sick pay", and it says, "You will be excluded
    38        from statutory sick pay if you were taken on for a
    39        specified period of no more than three months".  Could you
    40        explain what that is?
    41        A.  I have never heard of it.  This may, as far as I know
    42         -- I am afraid I am guessing -- this is just a copy of the
    43        regulations.  I have never heard of anybody being offered a
    44        three month contract at McDonald's.  I think this is just a
    45        reiteration of what the rules are regarding SSP.
    46
    47   Q.   Have you ever been aware of complaints or problems with
    48        staff not getting any training, crew members not getting
    49        any training, when they start on a new job?
    50        A.  No. 
    51 
    52   Q.   That has never been brought to your attention that that was 
    53        happening?
    54        A.  No.
    55
    56   Q.   Would you expect every crew member to be trained before
    57        being left on a particular machine ---
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   -- or grill or fire station or whatever?

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