Day 181 - 01 Nov 95 - Page 25
1 cent of the reasons for leaving, that is if you include 19?
2 A. Is that 12 to 19?
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4 Q. 12 to 19 inclusive.
5 A. Aggregated.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It comes to just over six?
8 A. It does.
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10 MR. RAMPTON: It comes to just over six per cent. Then I would
11 also like you to look at 4 personal, which is 22 and
12 three-quarters per cent, and 11 without notice, which is
13 just over 19 per cent. I take it you would agree with me
14 that the probability is that both categories, 4 and 11,
15 contain at least an element of people who left because they
16 did not like the job but did not say so, is that likely?
17 A. Yes, I would agree with that.
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19 Q. Would you also agree with me that one cannot tell from
20 looking at this table how large or how small that element
21 might be?
22 A. I would agree with that.
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24 Q. What?
25 A. I would agree with that.
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27 Q. You would, then you can put that away. Thank you very
28 much, but do not put it right away. Can you put it on the
29 side table because we are going to need some of Lynne
30 Mead's documents later on. In fact, we are going to need
31 them now. I want to ask you some questions about
32 overtime. Do you have any idea how many people, what
33 proportion of the workforce, at McDonald's is full-time and
34 what proportion is part-time?
35 A. 80 per cent.
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37 Q. In London, yes, that is correct. Do you also agree with me
38 that the people who are most likely -- I am not suggesting
39 an invariable principle -- to be doing overtime are
40 full-timers?
41 A. I have not seen any evidence either way on this.
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43 Q. Use your knowledge of the industry, please, and your common
44 sense: Is it not most likely that most of the people doing
45 overtime will be the people who are working up to 39 hours
46 in an ordinary week and, therefore, likely to tack on the
47 extra hours to constitute overtime?
48 A. Common sense would suggest that.
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50 Q. It must be so, must it not? Then would you like to look,
51 please, at a document in Miss Mead's clutch of documents,
52 this one is the next one on, E, which has six pages,
53 I think, and I would like you to look at the second page.
54 I know it is not very easy to read but it is decipherable.
55 One can see an analysis done for the end of the quarter
56 ending on 31st March of this year. I regret to say,
57 Mr. Pearson, we do not have any materials for earlier
58 years, and you can see the figures given for the previous
59 quarter and you can see the figures given for the
60 equivalent quarter at the beginning of 1994.
