Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 34
1 I would say around 89 is when the programme started.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -----
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39 Q. Produced by whom?
40 A. By HMSO.
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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.
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49 Q. Government information?
50 A. Yes.
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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.
