Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 31

     
     1   Q.   You phase it in?
     2        A.  No.  It depends what prompted the change of conditions.
     3
     4   Q.   You reduce the working conditions?
     5        A.  No, I never reduced the working conditions.
     6
     7   Q.   No, but the conditions when the unpaid breaks came in ---
     8        A.  I have tried to tell you.
     9
    10   Q.   -- the conditions got worse for those who got unpaid
    11        breaks?
    12        A.  I cannot tell you -- I do not know that it did.  I do
    13        not know why it was introduced and I cannot help you.
    14
    15   Q.   If we look at the Defendants' documents which was the
    16        additional documents we served?
    17        A.  I do not think I have a copy of those.  I have seen
    18        them but I do not think I have a copy.
    19
    20   Q.   There is a file XV somewhere and it is document No. 3.
    21
    22   MR. RAMPTON:  It is kingfisher bundle VI, my Lord.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  Tab No. 3 and it is an article from The Sun
    25        newspaper.
    26        A.  Yes.
    27
    28   Q.   July 5th 1994?
    29        A.  Yes, I have read it.
    30
    31   Q.   Did you hear about that at that time?
    32        A.  No.
    33
    34   Q.   Let us have a look.  The effect of that article, is it not
    35         -- just the effect of what it says there -- is that staff
    36        were not being paid for break times?
    37        A.  I do not know anything about it.
    38
    39   Q.   No, I know you do not know anything about that particular
    40        incident ---
         A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   -- but, effectively, it is not against McDonald's policy
    44        for staff not to get paid for their breaks, is it?  That is
    45        the policy now, breaks are unpaid?
    46        A.  Whether they are unpaid in every restaurant or not, I
    47        do not know.  I do not know what the policy is now.  You
    48        really have to direct this kind of question to someone who
    49        is current.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is the point of asking Mr. Nicholson 
    52        about this article?  He says he does not know anything 
    53        about it.  When other witnesses come whom you think might
    54        know something about it, you can ask them; they will either
    55        know something about it and you can ask them further, or
    56        they will say they know nothing about.
    57
    58        If you cannot get some confirmation from a McDonald's
    59        witness, you may call evidence yourself, I do not know, and
    60        you may do that in any event.  But it is no use just