Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 30


     
       1 MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, tab 34B of volume XB, yellow XB.
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       3 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have yellow XB there?  Are you going
       4      to ask Mr. Coton about this or just draw my attention to
       5      it?
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       7 MS. STEEL:   No, I am just going to ask him a couple of
       8      questions about it.
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      10 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There should be a divider 34, about a third
      11      of the way through that.
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      13 MS. STEEL:   Have you got it?
      14      A.  I have Frank Stanton on 34.
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      16 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  34B.
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      18 THE WITNESS:  Yes, I have it.
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      20 MS. STEEL:  Just one thing as a kind of preliminary matter.
      21      No. 3 it says that Tracey Milleine left McDonald's with
      22      Simon Gibney to move back to Colchester.  Then she
      23      rejoined in June 1990.  Did she ever speak to you about
      24      that and, if she did, can you explain what -----
      25      A.  It was -- she actually rejoined the Company at the
      26      instigation of myself and Adrian Brett.  I was aware of
      27      the reasons that she left through Simon Gibney because she
      28      was dissatisfied with the way they were treated when they
      29      went to Milton Keynes.  I had always found her a hard
      30      working person and also got on with her on the social
      31      side, so when she came back to Colchester and we got to
      32      talking, we actually convinced her to come back and join
      33      us again.
      34
      35 Q.   Just going down to paragraph 8, this is about docking crew
      36      hours, I do not know whether you are immediately familiar
      37      with that, whether you remember what was said, but if you
      38      just want to scan through it again and then explain what
      39      you say was happening at that time.
      40      A.  Right.  This relates to an incident that happened
      41      after a change in Supervisor when certain practices, i.e.
      42      docking of hours, we were told in no uncertain terms they
      43      were to stop.
      44
      45 Q.   What was the change of Supervisor?
      46      A.  Neil Skehel.
      47
      48 Q.   From Mark Davis?
      49      A.  From Mark Davis.  He made it totally clear to me that,
      50      although he expected the same achievements, it had to be
      51      done without any underhand methods.  So it was all put
      52      across to all management team that these practices had to 
      53      stop and there would be no docking of hours.
      54
      55 Q.   Did you instruct your Managers that or did you just let
      56      them carry on the way they ----
      57      A.  They were instructed to stop by me and Mr. Scale.
      58
      59 Q.   So as soon as you received that instruction did you pass
      60      it on straightaway?

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