Day 117 - 27 Apr 95 - Page 02

     
     1                                      Thursday, 27th April, 1995.
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     3                 MR. SIDNEY THOMAS NICHOLSON, continued.
     4                    Examined by Mr. Rampton, continued.
     5
     6   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Nicholson, at the end of yesterday I promised
     7        we would come to promotion (which we now shall) within
     8        McDonald's.  Could you see if you can find at your right
     9        hand the pink volume XI, please?
    10        A.  Yes.
    11
    12   Q.   Turn to tab 3, please, page 137.
    13        A.  Yes.
    14
    15   Q.   Which should be a section in the Crew Handbook for 1989
    16        headed "Promotion", is it?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   I will read it, if I may:  "McDonald's policy is to
    20        actively promote from within.  If you do well as a crew
    21        person, your manager may consider you for promotion to
    22        Dining Area Hostess, Training Squad, Training Co-ordinator
    23        or Floor Manager.  These jobs are offered to employees who
    24        show initiative and a desire to advance.  Higher rates of
    25        pay are given for these extra responsibilities.  Many of
    26        our finest managers and senior company personnel have been
    27        promoted from crew.  Ask your manager about the entry
    28        requirements for trainee management or the junior business
    29        management programme or write to the personnel department
    30        regional office".
    31
    32        Mr. Nicholson, are these just fine words?
    33        A.  Certainly not.
    34
    35   Q.   Is that policy stated here of active promotion within the
    36        Company carried out in practice?
    37        A.  Most certainly.
    38
    39   Q.   There is a passage in your statement dealing with this
    40        question of promotion from crew to management?
         A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Do you remember that?
    44        A.  Yes, I do.
    45
    46   Q.   My Lord, it is paragraph 23.  There are, I think, a couple
    47        of mistakes in it.  Have you the yellow volume there?
    48        A.  Yes, I have.
    49
    50   Q.   Your first statement is at tab 1.  If you would not mind 
    51        finding paragraph 22 for yourself?  I think it is on page 
    52        9. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The statement has not been read into
    55        Mr. Nicholson's evidence.
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, it has not.  The tenth line down,
    58        Mr. Nicholson, well the line above, there are three short
    59        words at the end of the line "In 1999 of"?
    60        A.  1989.