Day 144 - 28 Jun 95 - Page 55
1 our increases are based upon performance, in general.
2 There may be, you know, some unusual thing like -- but
3 I think that virtually all the reviews that I have ever
4 seen have been based upon performance. Here I think what
5 they are referring to is based upon performance they can
6 get in Philadelphia an increase in that three month
7 period. That is all they are referring to.
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9 Q. It does not say in a three month period ---
10 A. Well, what the words are.
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12 Q. -- it says "as soon as three months after starting"?
13 A. OK.
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15 Q. So it does not happen before three months for the lucky
16 ones that get their pay increase?
17 A. "As soon as three months", maybe it is at the three
18 month point, maybe it is at the two month point. The words
19 are there. They are implementing these practices. Are you
20 objecting to the fact that people may get an increase?
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. What is being put to you is this, that
23 on the face of that, I would not say it excludes the
24 possibility that someone somewhere might get a rise before
25 three months, but the phrasing of the words is that, by and
26 large, the earliest you would get a rise is three months
27 after starting, but many people do receive their rise as
28 early as three months after starting. That is what it
29 appears to say to me.
30 A. I would agree, my Lord.
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32 Q. What Mr. Morris has said is, does it follow that that is
33 reasonably the best you can do and an awful lot of people
34 will not get one until after three months, that is what he
35 is putting to you. If you can help on that, say so ----
36 A. I cannot.
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38 Q. -- if you really cannot, say so.
39 A. I cannot help on that, my Lord. These are
40 owner/operator practices in Phili -- I can read the words
41 as you and I can.
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43 Q. Can you add anything to that?
44 A. No, I cannot.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I draw your Lordship's attention to the
47 fact (which your Lordship knows already) that the address
48 given actually for the McDonald's Corporation is an address
49 at King of Prussia(?) which is a suburb of Philadelphia.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I had seen that it was Pennsylvania.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: King of Prussia is one of those suburbs mentioned
54 in the -----
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It clearly seems to me to be Philadelphia
57 because the last bullet point on 1469 again refers to
58 McDonald's restaurants in Philadelphia. It refers to two
59 officers at the very end who were of that .....
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