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                                          KEVIN HARRISON, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        Do customers suffer in any way?
     2        A.  No.
     3
     4   Q.   Do crew suffer in any way?
     5        A.  No.
     6
     7   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  Thank you, Mr. Harrison.
     8
     9                    Re-examined by the Defendants
    10
    11   MS. STEEL:   Do you just want to explain what you consider the
    12        relevance of that to be, the part about ringing in
    13        and -----
    14        A.  I cannot really say any more, other than to stress
    15        that, in my opinion, it is an example of the way things are
    16        manipulated to make the paper figures more acceptable to
    17        people in higher managerial positions, Area Supervisors and
    18        such.
    19
    20   Q.   Why do they do that?
    21        A.  To stop pressure on the Manager or the rest of the
    22        management team in any given store to get it right.
    23
    24   Q.   Right.
    25        A.  I mean, I am personally convinced that a lot of these
    26        practices are known to go on by some more senior
    27        management, but are ignored; or have been in the past,
    28        certainly.
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:   Can I just ask something, which is, I do not know,
    31        it appeared that Mr. Rampton was trying to insinuate
    32        something sinister about the fact that the witness had read
    33        other people's statements since making his original
    34        statement.  I am not sure whether I need to deal with that,
    35        given that the Plaintiffs' witnesses have all read each
    36        other's statements and have generally said where they have
    37        witnessed other things happened, and other people
    38        have -----
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   It is a matter for you whether you wish to
    41        ask anything about it in re-examination.
    42
    43   MS. STEEL:   Right.  (To the witness) Perhaps if I just ask:
    44        the things that are in the additional statement, are they
    45        just things that were put in there just so that you could
    46        go along with what other people were saying, or were they
    47        things that you witnessed with your own eyes and were your
    48        own experiences?
    49        A.  These are things that I witnessed with my own eyes and
    50        my own experiences. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Right. 
    53        A.  They were definitely not put in to go along with what
    54        other people had said.
    55
    56   Q.   Thank you.  You were asked about the fact that McDonald's
    57        was a restaurant meant was it not logical that people could
    58        not go on their breaks during busy periods.  What would
    59        have been the situation had more crew been scheduled to
    60        work during Saturdays, for example?
 
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