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1 would be to the returning to school and college, reasons
2 for leaving which we referred to earlier, the 20 odd per
3 cent of people who go through under that code. So that is
4 some documentary evidence which you have here on that
5 point.
6
7 Q. So some percentage of those may return having been to
8 school or college ---
9 A. Quite a lot of those ---
10
11 Q. -- may return?
12 A. -- would do that.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I see, by and large, the turnover rates are
15 higher for the quarter ending September 30th and March 31st
16 than they are for the other two quarters each year. Is
17 there any significance in that? Does it having anything to
18 do with, for instance, the long summer and Christmas
19 holidays and vacations?
20 A. Yes, it tends to be a seasonal thing when people are
21 then going back to university or college at those times.
22 Those are the times when they are likely to end,
23 particularly the September one. That is when they have
24 worked.
25
26 Q. So they go back in September and they go back in January
27 which is in the 31st March quarter?
28 A. Yes, that is right.
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30 MS. STEEL: When they come back they would be starting again at
31 the basic rate?
32 A. It would depend; it is quite likely that if they have
33 worked before they would restart on the rate at which they
34 left.
35
36 Q. How long would you keep that open?
37 A. I think it depends on each situation, how long the
38 person had worked for the Company before and so on. So, it
39 might be a matter of months, perhaps, if they did not
40 return for one vacation or something like that, they would
41 still remain.
42
43 Q. So is that entirely discretionary?
44 A. It is something, yes, that would be discussed between
45 the Manager and the individual when the person wanted to
46 return. (Pause)
47
48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: While Ms. Steel is looking for that, could
49 you help me with one other thing on G1 because I have not
50 got a calculator here, although I can do a bit of mental
51 arithmetic. Where you have the full-time males, for
52 instance, there by "Occupation", it has a weekly figure and
53 it has an hourly figure. Do you know whether, taken from
54 the New Earnings Survey, they are figures obtained from
55 separate sources or just the one multiplied by 39 or
56 something of that kind? I would guess, knowing the New
57 Earnings Survey, they are both averages plucked from their
58 own columns without ----
59 A. I am not sure whether the hourly rate figure actually
60 comes from the survey; it may be just that it is dividing
