Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 32
1 Q. Is it a statement made by you?
2 A. Yes, it is.
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4 Q. Are its contents true?
5 A. Yes.
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7 Q. Can I just ask you one or two questions about it? We
8 notice that you were employed by McDonald's from March 1981
9 to May 1987 -- that is over six years -- as a payroll
10 manager; yes?
11 A. Yes.
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13 Q. Had you had any experience of doing payroll work before you
14 joined McDonald's?
15 A. Yes, indeed, I had.
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17 Q. You had? You tell us that the only wages inspector you
18 dealt with during that period was a Mr. Mills?
19 A. That is correct.
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21 Q. That is right? You said that he visited, after the Company
22 moved from Hampstead High Street to Ballards Lane in
23 Finchley, some time in 1981 or 1982?
24 A. That is correct.
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26 Q. That is the beginning of your time as payroll manager ---
27 A. That is right.
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29 Q. -- at McDonald's. Then you tell us, at the beginning of
30 paragraph 3, that: "Mr. Mills made approximately two visits
31 a year to the office, and he spent two or three hours with
32 us on each occasion." Do you think you, personally, will
33 have been present on each of those occasions, or not?
34 A. I think, without exception, I was present for all of
35 his visits.
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37 Q. Then you say in the next sentence: "Often he would arrive
38 after he first visited restaurants and he examined their
39 records." That, presumably, is what he told you he had
40 been doing; is that right?
41 A. That is right.
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43 Q. Did he bring any records from the restaurant with him when
44 he came to Head Office?
45 A. Yes, he did. He always had a folder with
46 correspondence, and sometimes he had copies of clock cards
47 and what have you.
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49 Q. That is, as you say in the next sentence: "He would cross
50 check the records kept at Head Office with the records he
51 had inspected at those restaurants"?
52 A. That is right.
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54 Q. Did you watch him do that?
55 A. Yes. I was with him all the time.
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57 Q. So you did not just give him the papers and let him sit on
58 his own in the room?
59 A. If it was something that was going to take a lot of
60 time, then perhaps we left him for a little while. But,
