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                                                                  DAY 212
 
                                             KIM MOFFATT, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.   What course?
     2        A.  One of the area administrators came down to the store.
     3        She helped me on variation things, but she did
     4        orientations.  This is way back when I was a Floor Manager,
     5        and I used to sit on orientations with this lady and do a
     6        couple with her then.  She will come and do one with you in
     7        our own store, and then she will come and spot checks; so
     8        she will come and watch you do a couple.
     9
    10   Q.   But you did not have to go on a course for a week or a
    11        couple of days ---
    12        A.  No.
    13
    14   Q.   -- to learn?
    15        A.  No.  It helped that I would obviously have to be a
    16        Manager and you have to have gone through the FMC, which is
    17        a Floor Managers' Course, but nothing directly geared to
    18        orientations, no.
    19
    20   Q.   So, really, you picked it up as you went along with help
    21        from the Supervisor?
    22        A.  No, no.  I was trained by an administrator.  She worked
    23        for the Supervisor.
    24
    25   Q.   An administrator who worked for the Supervisor?
    26        A.  Yes.
    27
    28   Q.   Trained you on the job, so to speak, with you?
    29        A.  No.  I watched her doing an orientation, and it went
    30        from there, like I said.
    31
    32   Q.   You saw the way she did it, and you did it the way that she
    33        was doing it, basically?
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   Q.   Did she have any particular qualifications on the law or
    37        personnel management?
    38        A.  I am not sure.  I am not sure what qualifications she
    39        has.
    40
    41   Q.   You did not have any particular training in that kind of
    42        thing?
    43        A.  What, in law?
    44
    45   Q.   Apart from what the administration assistant to the
    46        Supervisor was doing, which you copied and she monitored
    47        you, you did not have any particular legal training or
    48        personnel management training?
    49        A.  No, no courses, no.
    50 
    51   Q.   So, when you were answering a wide range of questions from 
    52        employees about all the issues to do with employment 
    53        conditions and rights, you do not really know if you were
    54        answering them correctly or not, unless it was specifically
    55        in the Handbook?
    56        A.  I would not have answered it if I did not know the
    57        answer.
    58
    59   Q.   So, if people asked you questions about the law on
    60        employment conditions, what would you say to them?
 
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