Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 31

     
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     2   Q.   You are responsible for maintenance and repair of the
     3        equipment?
     4        A.  Certainly, yes, if anything is broke or needed fixing,
     5        then that would be either mine or my job to ensure that an
     6        Assistant either called an engineer or fixed the equipment.
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     8   Q.   Are you responsible for hiring and firing people?
     9        A.  Certainly, yes.
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    11   Q.   Are you responsible for seeing that people get their
    12        performance reviews?
    13        A.  Yes.
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    15   Q.   Are you responsible for authorising or giving pay rises?
    16        A.  Yes.  We would normally discuss any pay rises and
    17        performance reviews at a weekly Managers' meeting, and
    18        I would oversee that there was a consistency and they were
    19        calibrated so it was fair across the board.
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    Q.   A weekly managers' meeting, you mean that is an internal
    22        thing, you and your Assistants?
    23        A.  Yes, the management team of the restaurant.
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    25   Q.   Would the performance reviews, whether they were pay
    26        related or not, sometimes be conducted by somebody other
    27        than yourself?
    28        A.  Yes.
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    30   Q.   How junior could you be to do a performance review?
    31        A.  As I remember it, either myself or the First Assistant
    32        would do the performance reviews; in some instances, the
    33        Second Assistants would also do the review.
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    35   Q.   To what extent would you find that you needed to refer your
    36        running of your business in the restaurant upwards to the
    37        Area Supervisor or above?
    38        A.  I would probably talk with the Area Supervisor on a
    39        daily basis, to let him know what was going on.  If there
    40        was a problem that I needed advice on, then I would refer
         to the Supervisor and he would come in possibly twice a
    42        week, sometimes more, to either train Managers or advise me
    43        on the running of the business.
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    45   Q.   In those days that was Mr. Stanton?
    46        A.  That is correct, yes.
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    48   Q.   You took over the restaurants which he had supervised,
    49        Colchester, Clacton and Ipswich as well, I think; is that
    50        right? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
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    53   Q.   How often do you visit your stores when you were an Area
    54        Supervisor?
    55        A.  Once or twice a week.
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    57   Q.   Have been in court while Mr. Stanton has been describing
    58        the duties of an Area Supervisor over these last three
    59        days?
    60        A.  Yes.