Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 22


     
     1        hours or can you not say?
     2        A.  I think it is more likely that part-timers, if you
     3        like, have more reasons to be off because of study leave
     4        and things like that.  Full-timers are more likely to be
     5        off because of holiday and so on.  So, yes, I think
     6        probably more of them would be part-timers.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it may be in the end, I do not know, that
     9        the figures which your Lordship would think are the most
    10        significant are those actually below the line, people
    11        working more than 39 hours a week, I do not know,
    12        particularly, perhaps, those working for than 50 hours a
    13        week.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  The only thing I have in mind is that
    16        if one is looking at reason for turnover, and the reason is
    17        said to be:  "Well, we have a lot of students and women who
    18        have to run a home as well, and they have reasons quite
    19        apart from whether McDonald's is a satisfactory employer or
    20        not for leaving", then one might be able to measure that
    21        against the percentage of part-time employees because they
    22        are more likely to be part-time employees.  That is all
    23        I am thinking.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  Where eventually your Lordship drew the line is,
    26        of course, a matter for your Lordship.  But if your
    27        Lordship is going to do that exercise, plainly, it would be
    28        sensible for a statistical point of view to exclude the 0
    29        hours people, probably, because one does not know whether
    30        they are part-timers or full-timers.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  I do not suppose a variation of 5 per
    33        cent which is half of that one way or the other would make
    34        any difference on that argument.
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  (To the witness):  In addition to people who,
    37        people like yourself, go back to school or college or who
    38        have children to look after during school holidays or
    39        whatever, does the Company have any broad idea what are the
    40        reasons why people leave McDonald's?
    41        A.  Well, we do also report on reasons for leaving.  The
    42        Manager will complete information on the file and put it on
    43        the computer, so we can look at it in that way.
    44
    45   Q.   I am going to ask you now to look at some of that material
    46        which again is in this new bundle of documents.  It is
    47        documents C and D.  The first document C has on it:  "As
    48        from 18th April 1990".  These are codes by which one can
    49        tell what the reason for termination, as it is called,
    50        I call it the reason for leaving, is said to have been; is 
    51        that right. 
    52        A.  Yes. 
    53
    54   Q.   Are the same codes still in use?
    55        A.  Pretty much; there may be one more added at the end,
    56        I think, but pretty much the same, yes.
    57
    58   Q.   The next document, D, is in tabular form -- I hope it is --
    59        and I understand this to be a document from 1993; is that
    60        right?

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