Day 206 - 22 Jan 96 - Page 50


     
     1        A.  I cannot recall specific instances of people
     2        working  .....
     3
     4   Q.   It would not surprise you then if some people had worked
     5        seven days in a row at McDonald's?
     6        A.  Some people may have worked seven days in a row as an
     7        exception.
     8
     9   Q.   What about eight days, nine days in a row?  Does the
    10        Company have any policy on this kind of thing, some people
    11        could be working eight or nine days and you would not even
    12        know, yes?
    13        A.  No.  The way the schedule was compiled, it would not
    14        allow someone, so far as I am aware, to work greater than
    15        seven days in a row.
    16
    17   Q.   Why not?
    18        A.  Because the two days -- the two day off period in the
    19        period of the -- in the week.
    20
    21   Q.   So that is for the employees' benefit or is this for the
    22        company's benefit?
    23        A.  That is for the employees' benefit.
    24
    25   Q.   So do you consider seven days in a row would be unfair on
    26        the employee, really?  Is that why you do it for the
    27        employees' benefit?
    28        A.  Sorry, I do not understand.
    29
    30   Q.   You say it is for the employee's benefit not to work even
    31        days in a row.  Is that because the Company considers that
    32        that is too much for an employee in terms of safety or in
    33        terms of stress or whatever else?
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you know?
    36        A.   Typically, the schedule is done on a weekly basis, so
    37        there would be a ------
    38
    39   Q.   As I understand it, let us suppose that it is normal to
    40        have two days off in every seven ---
    41        A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   -- theoretically anyway, even if that were observed, if you
    44        had your two days off at the beginning of one week and two
    45        days off at the end of the other, that would leave 10 days
    46        in a row in between, if it is so happened that you were
    47        scheduled in that way, because there are seven days in a
    48        week, so you have two off, five on, five on, two off.  This
    49        is just theoretical possibility, do you understand?
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   What is it, if anything, which makes you say that the way 
    53        the schedule was compiled would not allow you to work more
    54        than seven in a row?
    55        A.  You would be mind -- when you actually prepared the
    56        schedule you are mindful of the fact that you are looking
    57        at the previous week's schedule to prepare the next
    58        week's.  Obviously, during some period there is a cross
    59        over period, say, someone will be working on a night shift,
    60        then obviously you would need to know and examine the

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