Day 144 - 28 Jun 95 - Page 52
1 There are some others who want to work strictly part-time
2 or a number of hours a week, and there are many examples of
3 people who stay many, many years. That is the best I can
4 do, as far as an answer.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: One thing I have not asked -- I hope I have
7 not made a fall assumption -- if you have got about 80 per
8 cent of McDonald's crew who are working part-time,
9 something like that ---
10 A. Yes, my Lord.
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12 Q. -- does that mean that they cannot move into salaried
13 management?
14 A. Oh, no, my Lord.
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16 Q. That is what I had assumed.
17 A. In fact, the reason generally they are working
18 part-time, my Lord, is they are going to university.
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20 Q. I understand all that. I had assumed that for them we can
21 forget salaried employment, it is not available; it may
22 very well, I understand, not be what they want. So when we
23 are looking at who goes on to salaried management, we are
24 immediately restricted to the other 20 per cent and the
25 proportion of that 20 per cent who are interested in a
26 management position?
27 A. I need some clarification, my Lord, and make sure that
28 we are talking about the same thing. There are many people
29 who are working part-time ---
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31 Q. Yes.
32 A. -- who then will move directly into salaried management
33 because their availability becomes full-time. So, moving
34 into management is not restricted to those who are just
35 working full-time, my Lord. That is why I was using the
36 example of a college student. There are many college
37 students who have worked for us for a number of years
38 part-time ---
39
40 Q. Yes, I know that?
41 A. -- that we would love to have come into salaried
42 management and full-time, but they do not have the
43 availability, and we will wait until they have that
44 availability and come on board. But there are many of
45 those folks who, frankly, could be store managers, if you
46 will, but they just do not have the availability; or, my
47 Lord, there are women who, for one reason or another, do
48 not want full-time jobs who we would love to have come into
49 management and, hopefully, they will in time find the
50 ability and time to do that. So, it happens many different
51 ways.
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53 MR. MORRIS: We have heard that -- I think I may have asked you
54 this question before; tell me if I have -- in the UK 20 per
55 cent of the employees give as a reason for leaving, or the
56 managers put down as the reason for leaving, that they are
57 going back to school or college.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I thought it was 29, in fact.
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