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DAY 213
SEMIR KHAZNA, Cross-examined:
1 for me any more. I have got other jobs I prefer to go to
2 that pay lower wages"?
3 A. No, after 15 years I started, like I said, before I was
4 21 and I am 15 years on and I am still enjoying the job
5 enough to carry on.
6
7 Q. You have to be a special kind of person to want to stay at
8 McDonald's for that length of time?
9 A. There is quite a lot of people that I know that have
10 been with the Company a long time, crew and Managers.
11
12 Q. Got to really live McDonald's?
13 A. No, I do have a social life outside of work.
14
15 Q. You lose touch with reality about what is going on in the
16 rest of the world?
17 A. No, not at all. Actually, I will be travelling the
18 world this year.
19
20 Q. You said you had a problem of under-staffing and retaining
21 staff at this store. You went down there to sort it out.
22 You told the Manager he has to go to the Job Centre and get
23 some recruitment going. Did you tell him how he would get
24 people into his store, who should he recruit?
25 A. Just -- he is recruiting staff for the restaurant.
26
27 Q. He is having problems, you are saying he is having
28 problems?
29 A. That is right.
30
31 Q. So did you say: "Well, young people want to work at our
32 store" or -----
33 A. We advertise, we advertise, we not put an age on who we
34 hire. The Job Centre is across the road. You know, after
35 sitting there with John Nevison, I put an evaluation
36 saying, you know: "Keep in touch with the Job Centre on a
37 weekly basis. Keep the application forms in the store".
38 I gave him other advice like: "People do come into the
39 restaurant; hire on the spot. You know, people do come in
40 and ask for a job, you know, spend five minutes of your
41 time, speak to them".
42
43 Q. Two-thirds of them that come in would tend to be people
44 that are under 21; even though you are saying you recruit
45 from the whole working population, two-thirds of the people
46 that come in and make inquiries will be under 21?
47 A. If that is what you are saying, I mean, that is the
48 feeling you got.
49
50 Q. It seems anybody with any experience who is older and wiser
51 for some reason does not want to work at McDonald's?
52 A. Well, the reason why you are probably getting the 18s
53 and the 19s and the 20s is because they are students, and
54 if you are talking percentages, a high percentage of the
55 students are, you know, around that age bracket. You do
56 not get students that are, you know, 50 and 60.
57
58 Q. We have nearly finished now.
59
60 MS. STEEL: When people are transferred, are they taken to
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