Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 56
1 hours. I think we heard something like a national figure
2 of something like five per cent each week of McDonald's
3 employees working over 39 hours or, in fact, it was over 78
4 hours in a fortnight, so we are assuming it is something
5 like five per cent or more, in a week. Would that be
6 roughly the same for Marble Arch or was the Marble Arch
7 store different from other stores?
8 A. I could not really recall that.
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10 Q. Right.
11 A. I could not give you a definite answer from this length
12 of time away on that.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you put it another way then? Would it
15 surprise you if one in 20 of the Marble Arch payroll was
16 working more than 78 hours in a fortnight?
17 A. Perhaps not at certain times.
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19 MR. MORRIS: If one out of 20 of the payroll working over 39
20 hours then, and if -- I know you were not clear about that
21 -- the typical average of 20 full-timers for 80
22 part-timers was the situation, then something like a
23 quarter of all the full-timers would be working over 39
24 hours each week?
25 A. Or a part-time person that is full-time when the summer
26 season is there or Christmas is there.
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28 Q. Right. But, in general, people that worked over 39 hours
29 would be full-timers?
30 A. Quite possibly.
31
32 Q. By definition?
33 A. Yes.
34
35 Q. Right. You have got experience of quite a lot of stores,
36 have you?
37 A. Yes.
38
39 Q. So quite a lot of people that work over 35 hours --
40 full-timers -- in your experience, work something like 37,
41 38, 39 hours, would that be the bulk of what the
42 full-timers would work?
43 A. Very possibly.
44
45 Q. You schedule your full-timers for how many hours?
46 A. Five shifts a week.
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48 Q. Five shifts a week which is?
49 A. Seven or eight hour shifts.
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51 Q. Between 35 and 40 hours, basically?
52 A. Yes.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am a bit puzzled by this. I know my
55 interventions do not often save time -- maybe this one will
56 not either. I would really like to know; we have had this
57 range of questions of practically every McDonald's witness
58 that has appeared in the witness box. I really would like
59 to know whether the Defendants say that there is something
60 adverse to McDonald's in the fact that somebody might work
