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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
