Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 16


     
     1        half the people at that time in 95 had served for less than
     2        a year, maybe it is a year or less, and that, if my sums
     3        are correct, almost exactly 75 per cent -- I came out at
     4        56.25, so it can be checked, for the categories up to 12
     5        months.  Then if we add 18.36, we have as near makes no
     6        difference three-quarters or 75 per cent who have been in
     7        service for two years or less, do you understand?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   If three quarters of your employees at any given time have
    11        been in service for two years or less, and you do have a
    12        turnover rate which by any account is more than 100 per
    13        cent, it is highly likely that by far and away the most
    14        significant element of turnover comes from people who have
    15        actually worked for you for less than two years anyway?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   It may very well be that it comes from people who have
    19        worked for you for less than a year?
    20        A.  Yes.
    21
    22   Q.   That might be thought to coincide with common sense, that
    23        the turnover is, by and large, among people who have worked
    24        for a relatively short period?
    25        A.  Yes.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  These percentages, as you go through, that kind of
    28        spread of percentages, is that the same, so far as you
    29        know, that kind of spread of percentages that has existed
    30        since you were looking at these kinds of figures?
    31        A.  As far as I know, but these figures have not been being
    32        produced for more than, from recollection, I will say three
    33        years.
    34
    35   Q.   So for the last three years since you have been seeing
    36        these kind of figures, the same kind of percentages whose
    37        lengths of service might have been between 0 and one month,
    38        the same spread of percentages, the same picture, would
    39        roughly emerge for that three years?
    40        A.  Perhaps but I am not certain.
    41
    42   Q.   You have not noticed anything different about these
    43        figures, in terms of percentages; they have not suddenly
    44        shot up, that people who are working between three and 24
    45        months is sort of like somehow double or treble what it
    46        used to be three years ago or something like that?
    47        A.  No, I do not believe so, no.
    48
    49   Q.   I have looked at these.  If they are constant over a year
    50        or three years, as you have said, approximately ----- 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  The equivalent of my 56 
    53        per cent for up to 12 months and 75 per cent for up to 24
    54        months in the quarter ending 31st March 1995 for the
    55        previous year would be 53 per cent and 72 per cent.  So, in
    56        the previous year anyway they were broadly the same kind of
    57        percentages, one might say, but you cannot help us on
    58        whether that similarity went back further ---
    59        A.  No, because we have not had -----
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