Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 16
1 presto, they would have lost some or all of their
2 differential again?
3 A. Not necessarily that unusual. I mean, it is almost
4 20 per cent, according to these figures here; one-fifth of
5 the work force would probably stay.
6
7 Q. All right.
8 A. I find it difficult to extrapolate back 10 years
9 because, obviously, your original argument is that the
10 turnover is improved. By what banded proportion is
11 obviously not for me to discuss.
12
13 Q. We have something like 196.5 per cent turnover in 1989.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You know, I am going to ask you to leave
16 this, because all you are doing is rehearsing with
17 Mr. Stanton that which I have already taken on board with
18 another witness, and which is argument to me, anyway. If
19 there was some particular point where you thought
20 Mr. Stanton could add, well and good. But I think you
21 accept, yourself, that you are just illustrating the point
22 with this witness, as you did in the past.
23
24 I mean, if you wanted to ask Mr. Stanton if he can
25 remember, when he was at Colchester, what proportion of the
26 part-time crew -- which is around 70 per cent of the crew
27 anyway -- were 10p 20p or 30p above basic, then do. You do
28 not have to ask him that. But if it is a question of
29 deduction from facts which are common ground, I can do it
30 for myself.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Yes. (To the witness) When somebody moves to
33 another store, they -- I will start again. Everybody has a
34 payroll number nationally, a different number?
35 A. Yes.
36
37 Q. And everybody's pay records are on computer -- of all the
38 McDonald's controlled stores; yes?
39 A. OK, yes.
40
41 Q. The computer is capable of printing out what their wage
42 rates are for that individual person? Say you were in a
43 store and you wanted to know what person's -- obviously, if
44 you are the store manager, you would know that anyway --
45 say you wanted to type in a person's number, you could get
46 a printout of their wage rates are, to check it is correct
47 at Central Office, or whatever?
48 A. As a supervisor?
49
50 Q. Supervisor or manager. What I am saying is that -----
51 A. Sorry, I am saying, are you saying in my time as a
52 supervisor could I do that? I do not understand the
53 question.
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55 Q. Since the computerised records of payroll exist, you have
56 the ability in a store to type in -- or anywhere in the
57 country, presumably -- anyone, whether it is the manager or
58 the supervisor, or Paul Preston, can go into a store and
59 tap out somebody's payroll number and they would get some
60 kind of information on the screen about how long they had
