Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 55
1 approximately 15 to 20 franchised restaurants, my Lord.
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3 Q. I think you told me how many of the 600 were, did you not?
4 A. Yes, I made that enquiry on that Monday; there were 124
5 restaurants franchised to 93 franchisees.
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7 Q. By 93 or something like that?
8 A. Yes.
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10 MS. STEEL: On page 9 of your affidavit ---
11 A. The same affidavit?
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13 Q. -- yes, the same affidavit -- in the middle paragraph you
14 said: "Unless a specific problem arose regarding clock
15 cards, e.g. they became evidence in an Industrial Tribunal
16 application, they would be destroyed by the restaurants
17 shortly after the fortnight period expired." That is not
18 true, is it?
19 A. I think it is; that is what I was told.
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21 Q. Who told you that?
22 A. My Personnel staff.
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24 Q. Which Personnel staff? Which particular -----
25 A. All of them.
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27 Q. All of them told you that?
28 A. I asked them all what the procedures were in the
29 restaurants. This is generating a tremendous amount of
30 paper, these clock cards. There was a clock card for every
31 fortnight for every employee who worked in the restaurant.
32 It very, very quickly became a massive amount of paper.
33 They are very limited in space, so they would be destroyed
34 once we felt or once the local management felt their
35 usefulness had been obtained, because what was on the clock
36 card was extracted and put on to that sheet of paper,
37 I take it, that you produced the other day, the record of
38 hours worked.
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40 There was a store record collated. That store record went
41 up to the Payroll Department from which they generated the
42 payroll. So there is no point in keeping the clock cards.
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44 Q. Who told you that they would be destroyed?
45 A. I have just answered that.
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47 Q. Did Lyn Mead tell you that?
48 A. She would be one of the people who did.
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50 Q. And Jill Barnes?
51 A. No, she is not a Human Resource Officer.
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53 Q. Did you make enquiries with any of the stores which are
54 pleaded in our pleadings in relation to matters ------
55 A. No, I did not. It would be wrong for me say I did not
56 go to any of the stores. I asked one or two managers that
57 I met at Head Office what they did with their records.
58 I wanted to know what they did with all of their records.
59 You had raised the point and, in fairness to you, I was
60 trying to find out from as many people as I could how long
