Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 34
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2 Q. You agree with him?
3 A. I agree with it, yes.
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5 Q. The last point about under 18s working illegal hours at
6 night, he says: "As a result of successful prosecutions
7 against the Company in the early 80s in Luton, Guildford
8 and Slough for such offences, it was instilled as a result
9 of that into all of us from Head of Operations down that
10 this practice was not to reoccur".
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12 Do you have any comment about that?
13 A. Yes, I mean, as I stated yesterday, because of the
14 pressure of work-load, time involved, it did occur because
15 the pressure was on to get people out of the restaurant,
16 people wanted to get home.
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18 Q. But what were you actually told about under 18s?
19 A. Not to schedule them after 12.00.
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21 Q. Not to schedule?
22 A. Not to be scheduled after 12 o'clock which was the
23 case. They would be scheduled till 12.00. As I said
24 yesterday, if you needed the people they would be asked to
25 stay on where a bonus would be paid, or something like
26 that would be paid over, but they would not actually be
27 clocked on while they were working. So, for record
28 purposes, they had actually finished at 12 o'clock.
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30 Q. I think we have nearly finished. The new documents, maybe
31 if we leave those to Mr. Rampton. If there is anything
32 that comes up, we can re-examine.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can re-examine on them.
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36 MS. STEEL: Can I just say that the witness has not seen them
37 because we only got them this morning as we came into
38 court.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Leave it there now. I want you to finish
41 your cross-examination (sic) before we break.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Yes, we have nearly finished.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I said "cross-examination", I meant your
46 examination-in-chief.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Is there anything you would like to say just
49 looking back over your time at McDonald's about the kind
50 of Company it seems to you?
51 A. Looking back, I mean, in retrospect, it was an
52 enjoyable time from one point of view. Looking back after
53 a few years, I find it quite hard to believe some of the
54 things we did do and the things we asked over people to do
55 to achieve an aim. It is hard to say, had I carried on
56 with the Company, the reason leaving obviously was a
57 personal thing as opposed to what I was actually doing, it
58 was more of a personal conflict with Neil Skehel than what
59 the Company was doing, so I do not know if that had not
60 had happened whether I would still be with the Company now
