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1 A. No. Generally speaking you would return at the same
2 rate of pay you had when you left. There is local
3 discretion, but overall we value that experience that
4 someone has had and we would restore them to the old rate
5 of pay.
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7 Q. Take this scenario, please. Suppose that my home is in
8 Chicago but I am at college in Boston, and suppose that
9 while I am at college in Boston I choose to work maybe
10 nights, maybe weekends, at McDonald's. In Chicago I have
11 been working at McDonald's during the vacations. How can
12 McDonald's ensure in Boston that I get the same rate when I
13 join at Boston as I did when I worked in Chicago?
14 A. OK. The process would be that when you fill out an
15 application for the job in Boston (this is someone who is
16 living in Chicago if I recall) you would indicate where you
17 have worked. It asks on there, "Have you worked for
18 McDonald's before?" because obviously we consider that
19 important. We also ask for what rate of pay you had and
20 length of time that you worked there. That information
21 would then be imparted to the regional office that is in
22 Boston and they would make contact with Chicago to verify
23 the information.
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25 Q. Would they ascertain what was the rate I was at when
26 I stopped working in Chicago?
27 A. Yes, absolutely. Yes.
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29 Q. You do not I think record figures for people who come back
30 to work at McDonald's after having left. You do not record
31 returnees; you record leavers but not returnees in the
32 course of a year?
33 A. That is correct. When someone comes back we give them
34 a new number, if you will.
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36 MR. MORRIS: There were two quite prominent leading questions on
37 important matters one after another.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you do not want to lead you do not have to
40 address me. All you have to say in a quiet voice to
41 Mr. Rampton is "please do not lead on this".
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43 MR. RAMPTON: I was only trying to save time. I will ask it in
44 a non-leading way. Do you, Mr. Stein, keep a record of
45 those who come back to McDonald's after an interim having
46 previously worked for McDonald's, whether in the same place
47 or elsewhere but having left?
48 A. No, not at all. They would get a new number and they
49 would move forward with their employment. Then if they
50 leave again we would track the fact that we had a turnover,
51 as we would call it.
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53 Q. I am coming to turnover in due course. You get a number at
54 the point where you are employed?
55 A. That is correct.
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57 Q. And that number, does it then go through the length of that
58 particular period of employment?
59 A. For the continuous period of time.
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