Day 124 - 10 May 95 - Page 30
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2 Q. But that did not apply to 16 and 17 years olds who could
3 work at lower than the minimum wage, the so-called "youth
4 differential"?
5 A. I do not remember what the age category was.
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7 Q. Do you remember that the -----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why give them a time? Was that geared to
10 length of holidays, something like that, school or college
11 holidays or vacations?
12 A. No, I think that was geared to any time during the
13 year. To any employer that wished to hire students, they
14 could do so for a period of time and that was to -----
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16 Q. So that might just be the first so many days of a much
17 longer period of employment?
18 A. That is correct. That is my recollection of it.
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20 MR. MORRIS: But any company with a high turnover of staff would
21 benefit from that?
22 A. It could.
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24 Q. Do you remember the representative of the district in which
25 McDonald's headquarters is based -- I always get confused
26 between the Senate and the Congress in America -- do you
27 remember there was a representative called John Ehlrenborn
28 who represented the area that McDonald's headquarters was
29 based in?
30 A. John Ehlrenborn is -- was a member of the House of
31 representatives from Illinois, yes, from Du Page County in
32 Illinois.
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34 Q. Is he still there?
35 A. He was a former -- he is a former representative.
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37 Q. Was he there for a long time in that position? 10 years,
38 15 years or something?
39 A. Something like that, I think.
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41 Q. So, effectively, if McDonald's wanted to bring anything up
42 formally or put its point of view, he would be the person
43 that they had to go to, would he?
44 A. That would make some sense. It would seem to me that
45 if he, John, was a representative for Du Page County, or a
46 good portion of Du Page County, where our headquarters is
47 located, and if we had a point of view that we wanted to
48 express, he certainly could have been a spokesman for us.
49 It seems to me he has been a spokesperson for us on a
50 number of issues.
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52 Q. Yes. Do you remember that at the time when the youth
53 differential brought in he was the staunchest defender of
54 that youth differential on the Special Labour Subcommittee
55 that was concerned with that Bill?
56 A. No, I do not know that to be the case. I mean, that is
57 the account given in the book. I do not know that to be
58 true. I mean, that is his version of it.
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60 Q. Do you remember that he was on that Special Committee that
