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1 half the people at that time in 95 had served for less than
2 a year, maybe it is a year or less, and that, if my sums
3 are correct, almost exactly 75 per cent -- I came out at
4 56.25, so it can be checked, for the categories up to 12
5 months. Then if we add 18.36, we have as near makes no
6 difference three-quarters or 75 per cent who have been in
7 service for two years or less, do you understand?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. If three quarters of your employees at any given time have
11 been in service for two years or less, and you do have a
12 turnover rate which by any account is more than 100 per
13 cent, it is highly likely that by far and away the most
14 significant element of turnover comes from people who have
15 actually worked for you for less than two years anyway?
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. It may very well be that it comes from people who have
19 worked for you for less than a year?
20 A. Yes.
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22 Q. That might be thought to coincide with common sense, that
23 the turnover is, by and large, among people who have worked
24 for a relatively short period?
25 A. Yes.
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27 MR. MORRIS: These percentages, as you go through, that kind of
28 spread of percentages, is that the same, so far as you
29 know, that kind of spread of percentages that has existed
30 since you were looking at these kinds of figures?
31 A. As far as I know, but these figures have not been being
32 produced for more than, from recollection, I will say three
33 years.
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35 Q. So for the last three years since you have been seeing
36 these kind of figures, the same kind of percentages whose
37 lengths of service might have been between 0 and one month,
38 the same spread of percentages, the same picture, would
39 roughly emerge for that three years?
40 A. Perhaps but I am not certain.
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42 Q. You have not noticed anything different about these
43 figures, in terms of percentages; they have not suddenly
44 shot up, that people who are working between three and 24
45 months is sort of like somehow double or treble what it
46 used to be three years ago or something like that?
47 A. No, I do not believe so, no.
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49 Q. I have looked at these. If they are constant over a year
50 or three years, as you have said, approximately -----
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. The equivalent of my 56
53 per cent for up to 12 months and 75 per cent for up to 24
54 months in the quarter ending 31st March 1995 for the
55 previous year would be 53 per cent and 72 per cent. So, in
56 the previous year anyway they were broadly the same kind of
57 percentages, one might say, but you cannot help us on
58 whether that similarity went back further ---
59 A. No, because we have not had -----
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