Day 181 - 01 Nov 95 - Page 25


     
     1        cent of the reasons for leaving, that is if you include 19?
     2        A.  Is that 12 to 19?
     3
     4   Q.   12 to 19 inclusive.
     5        A.  Aggregated.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It comes to just over six?
     8        A.  It does.
     9
    10   MR. RAMPTON:  It comes to just over six per cent.  Then I would
    11        also like you to look at 4 personal, which is 22 and
    12        three-quarters per cent, and 11 without notice, which is
    13        just over 19 per cent.  I take it you would agree with me
    14        that the probability is that both categories, 4 and 11,
    15        contain at least an element of people who left because they
    16        did not like the job but did not say so, is that likely?
    17        A.  Yes, I would agree with that.
    18
    19   Q.   Would you also agree with me that one cannot tell from
    20        looking at this table how large or how small that element
    21        might be?
    22        A.  I would agree with that.
    23
    24   Q.   What?
    25        A.  I would agree with that.
    26
    27   Q.   You would, then you can put that away.  Thank you very
    28        much, but do not put it right away.  Can you put it on the
    29        side table because we are going to need some of Lynne
    30        Mead's documents later on.  In fact, we are going to need
    31        them now.  I want to ask you some questions about
    32        overtime.  Do you have any idea how many people, what
    33        proportion of the workforce, at McDonald's is full-time and
    34        what proportion is part-time?
    35        A.  80 per cent.
    36
    37   Q.   In London, yes, that is correct.  Do you also agree with me
    38        that the people who are most likely -- I am not suggesting
    39        an invariable principle -- to be doing overtime are
    40        full-timers?
    41        A.  I have not seen any evidence either way on this.
    42
    43   Q.   Use your knowledge of the industry, please, and your common
    44        sense:  Is it not most likely that most of the people doing
    45        overtime will be the people who are working up to 39 hours
    46        in an ordinary week and, therefore, likely to tack on the
    47        extra hours to constitute overtime?
    48        A.  Common sense would suggest that.
    49
    50   Q.   It must be so, must it not?  Then would you like to look, 
    51        please, at a document in Miss Mead's clutch of documents, 
    52        this one is the next one on, E, which has six pages, 
    53        I think, and I would like you to look at the second page.
    54        I know it is not very easy to read but it is decipherable.
    55        One can see an analysis done for the end of the quarter
    56        ending on 31st March of this year.  I regret to say,
    57        Mr. Pearson, we do not have any materials for earlier
    58        years, and you can see the figures given for the previous
    59        quarter and you can see the figures given for the
    60        equivalent quarter at the beginning of 1994.

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