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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        past when he should not have been, and this is just a
     2        computerised correction.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that might be.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But since they have had to correct those two
     7        columns, they have to stuff something in the regular
     8        column.
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  Yes -- no, I agree with you.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  And they have put two noughts in.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  I think that is a very special case.  That is just
    15        an anomaly.
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I am going to say is this, at the moment
    18        you have made your point clear, you have had a modicum of
    19        acceptance from McDonald's witnesses that it appears to me
    20        what you say, and I will wait and hear if there is any
    21        evidence which ---
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  Which contradicts it.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- from actual knowledge gives an explanation
    26        which is contrary to that.  But I have now taken more time
    27        than you would have done.  I suggest you leave it there
    28        with this witness because the rest is comment.
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Can I just point out then on page 76 only one
    31        out of six seems to have had a pay review.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We can look through them.  I have already
    34        whipped through them myself.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  OK.  All right then, we will leave it at that.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did pay reviews fall behind in your first
    39        period in all the hassle to get more people on the books?
    40        A.  They did, yes.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  People are entitled to a pay review, are they not,
    43        at the appropriate time?  That is part of McDonald's
    44        official payment system?
    45        A.  That is correct.  Any that are rewarded will be
    46        backdated though.
    47
    48   Q.   You said you put a stop to under 18 year-olds working past
    49        12 o'clock as it was against Company policy.  Did you
    50        investigate who had been altering clock cards after you 
    51        found out that some of the Managers had been altering clock 
    52        cards? 
    53        A.  I was told initially that it was happening, not
    54        specifically who was doing it.  You can check -- I did
    55        check the clock cards to see whether the asterisk had
    56        appeared, if something had been changed, but then some of
    57        them would be legitimate mistakes the crew had made with
    58        their clocking in and out.  So, it was hard to
    59        differentiate between the two, so I could not in detail
    60        find out exactly who had done what and to who.
 
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