Day 167 - 02 Oct 95 - Page 44


     
     1        there are many longstanding employees, including a core of
     2        Crew Members who have been with the restaurant for five to
     3        six years.  There is a good package for employees joining
     4        as Crew Members and the Company actively promotes employees
     5        from within each restaurant and from within the
     6        organisation as a whole.  Bath itself is not a depressed
     7        city, with many jobs available despite the economic
     8        climate.  Accordingly, if McDonald's treated its employees
     9        as Logan suggests is the case, the employees would go and
    10        work elsewhere".
    11
    12        Are you happy for all that to stand as your
    13        evidence-in-chief subject to the further answers you will
    14        give to my supplementary -----
    15        A.  I am.
    16
    17   Q.   Mr. Richards, I think you have seen the couple of sheets of
    18        paper Mr. Morris handed in with details of names and
    19        various allegations -- you have had a chance to read that?
    20        A.  I have.
    21
    22   Q.   I think the simplest thing is I will go through each
    23        individual person and ask you some questions about them and
    24        also I may raise one or two matters.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is there a copy for Mr. Richards?
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know if the witness has one.  For the
    29        moment it may be best it goes with Mr. Richards own
    30        statement.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  (Handed)
    33
    34   MR. ATKINSON:   Sorry.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just for my own benefit, is the item in the
    37        box at the bottom additional to Shelly Smith, a separate
    38        one or part of the same?
    39
    40   MR. ATKINSON:   The stuff in the box I read is a general comment
    41        on all of the people .....
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    44
    45   MR. ATKINSON:   Do you know any of these people first?
    46        A.  I do.
    47
    48   Q.   How many of them?
    49        A.  I recognise all of the names except Graham Picking who
    50        I do not recall. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Are they at the Bath store? 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  I believe it was 1991, if that is any help.
    55        A.  I am sorry, I do not recall the name.
    56
    57   MR. ATKINSON:   Have they been or are they at the Bath
    58        McDonald's?
    59        A.  Some have been working for us and have left and some
    60        are still working for us.

Prev Next Index