Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 34


     
     1        I would say around 89 is when the programme started.
     2
     3   Q.   Then if we look at the bottom of the page we see that of
     4        all managerial salaried staff in the restaurants 52 per
     5        cent have come from crew and 48 per cent from outside.  The
     6        true figure, according to some handwriting -- not mine --
     7        above the pie charts is 52.4 per cent.  I have not done the
     8        maths myself.  That figure of 52 per cent of salaried
     9        management staff in the restaurant, is that a figure which
    10        you are displeased with or pleased with or neither?
    11        A.  No, I think it is a positive figure because I think to
    12        have more than half of our management to have come from
    13        internal promotion is a very good figure.  It shows the
    14        training and so on that they are given prepares them for
    15        that promotion.
    16
    17   Q.   I want to turn to one particular feature which may be
    18        thought to bear or not, as the case may be, upon the
    19        question of turnover and the reasons why people stay with
    20        or leave the Company and that is rates of pay.  You will
    21        find in this same little bundle, two documents marked G1
    22        and G2, I hope.  The first document, I hope, Ms. Mead, is a
    23        single sheet headed "New Earning Survey April 1987".  Do
    24        you see that?
    25        A.  Yes.
    26
    27   Q.   Then at the bottom of the page in the bottom right-hand
    28        corner it says "28th April 1989".  Can you explain that
    29        apparent contradiction in the dates?
    30        A.  Well, it is that whenever we review rates we would go
    31        for -- apply to HMSO for whatever was the most recent
    32        available New Earnings Survey, and that would have been the
    33        one.
    34
    35   Q.   Sorry to interrupt, what is the New Earnings Survey?
    36        A.  Well, it is lots of tables and so on giving details of
    37        pay and earnings in -----
    38
    39   Q.   Produced by whom?
    40        A.  By HMSO.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is the Department of Employment, is it
    43        not?
    44        A.  Yes.
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  It is a government document?
    47        A.  Yes.
    48
    49   Q.   Government information?
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I know it is used very widely in personal 
    53        injury claims in order to see what someone who has been
    54        injured and cannot now work, or can only work in a limited
    55        capacity than they had hoped, might be earning.  The
    56        figures are all on someone working full-time in that
    57        employment and not missing any days for ill-health or
    58        injury, if my understanding is correct, when it says
    59        full-time rather than part-time?
    60        A.  Yes.

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