Day 180 - 31 Oct 95 - Page 27


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You said did not give a reason.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, did not give that reason for leaving,
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  The question I ask, my Lord, is this: how can
     6        Mr. Pearson guess at what the other reasons may be?  They
     7        are all written in the chart.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  If it is established that a huge percentage, the
    10        vast majority of McDonald's workers are leaving not to go
    11        back to college, and their total turnover is about -- well,
    12        at that time it is 190 per cent; it might be down to
    13        something like 120 per cent now, and that is now about five
    14        times the average for the industry, for their own section
    15        of the industry, which is high in any event.  Can you draw
    16        any expert conclusions -- or maybe not -- from that?
    17        A.  I would like to, if I may, my Lord, look at the table
    18        in question, which I have studied.
    19
    20   Q.   OK.  I have got a "D" on it, but I do not remember who it
    21        is behind.  It might have been Jill Barnes, I am not sure.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  It was Lynne Mead, was it not?
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  If someone can help Mr. Pearson find the
    26        right bundle.  It will be a yellow bundle.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us make sure we find it, before we set
    29        Mr. Pearson off on a search.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  It should be yellow X.
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.  It is yellow X, if you do not mind
    34        getting that, Mr. Pearson.  Have you got a yellow X?
    35
    36   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is document D, behind Mrs. Mead's
    37        statement.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you find divider 7, please?  If you look
    40        after Mrs. Mead's statement, you will see a number of
    41        documents.  I come to one which has a green divider,
    42        "maternity memo".  Maybe I have put that in the wrong
    43        place.  Should that go at the end, the maternity memo,
    44        after document H, Mr. Rampton, while I am on -----
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  Mrs. Brinley-Codd would like your Lordship to put
    47        it behind C, because it is mentioned in C.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is where I have put it at the moment.
    50 
    51   MR. RAMPTON:  Good. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL: (To the witness): If you flip on through the
    54        documents which appear -- you have it.  Well done.
    55        A.  Page 32?
    56
    57   Q.   Yes.
    58        A.  My comment on -----
    59
    60   Q.   Just pause. (Pause)  Yes?

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