Bingo from Wembley?
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THE Byzantine obscurity of the RTITB's Employers' Guide for 1974/5 makes me think it is the bureaucrats' revenge on critics in the industry whose strictures in earlier years may have been resented. Have the authors of the latest "points dominated" document just returned from a bingo cruise? The "numbers game" might be a better title for the publication. And what about the jargon?
Employers must get used to resounding new phrases like "base load element of novice drivers," the base load being defined as "the proportion of the total number of employees in a particular occupation within the Industry which constitutes a permanent wastage through retirement, sickness and other losses plus (or minus) the annual change inthe number of employees due to expan sion or contraction. The base load for relevant occupations will be calculated annually by the Board from its statistical data. In the case of hgv drivers it will normally be expressed as a percentage ofthe total driver population. For apprentices it will usually be more convenient to express it as a ratio of skilled craftsmen to apprentices." See what I mean?