Day 141 - 23 Jun 95 - Page 23
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you saying that any particular figure
3 over 100 was normal, granted that they have different
4 capacities, or are you just saying, in effect, it would not
5 be unusual to find stores in Mexico employed more than 100
6 people?
7 A. It would not be unusual, my Lord.
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9 MR. MORRIS: Do the part-time employees in that store or in
10 those what you say are -----
11 A. Could you start your question again?
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13 Q. Sorry. Do part-time employees in Mexico average, in the
14 kind of store we are talking about, the same amount of
15 hours as part-time employees in America?
16 A. Generally, I would say, yes.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would like to say something if I may?
19 Normally, I do not say anything; normally your Lordship
20 allows (and, in my view, rightly, if I might respectfully
21 say so) a certain amount of ping-pong from the two
22 defendants, but we now have had a whole series of questions
23 really like a stychomuthia from a Greek drama. I am not
24 concerned about that, but I did detect there that Mr. Stein
25 might have been distracted by the way they bob up and down
26 alternately -- maybe he is not.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Try to put a string together. If you
29 have a positive case on things, do put it rather than ask
30 to be given information, because I will assume that you
31 have nothing to put, that you are just trying to find
32 information. That may do you an injustice if you have a
33 positive case of your own to put. If it is your case that
34 a normal contingent would be about 60 or 70, positively put
35 it to the witness.
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37 MR. MORRIS: All right. I put to you that for that kind of
38 store, for that kind of size, working at normal McDonald's
39 hours, as you have said, the normal ratio of full-time and
40 part-time, that store would have about 60 or 70 staff.
41 A. You could not possibly run that store with just 60 ,
42 not at all.
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44 Q. If you give to us what you think the figure for that store
45 should approximately be?
46 A. I think for that store 125 to 150 would be about right.
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48 Q. If that is the case , how many would you put on a
49 shift ---
50 A. Oh, God!
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52 Q. -- would you expect to be on a shift? Sorry ------
53 A. To be very specific, I have never run a store ---
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55 Q. OK.
56 A. -- with that many employees in the US. So, now you are
57 asking me to refer back to my Operations talent?
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59 Q. No, I think you have already answered it, because you
60 accepted that there was something like -- would you accept
