Labour turnover is the proportion of the employees leaving a business over a period of time- usually a year. In general labour turnover indicates how content the workforce is in a firm. If a company always have a labour turnover that could be a good sign but also can be seen as something bad as the new people don’t particuarly know how the company works and they need to settle in first, this settling in time is not productive time for the company and might loose money through this. The good thing about labour turnover is that new employees have better/new ideas for the company. The case study of labour turnover shows us that in 2005 the labour turnover rate was at 10% and in 2007 in 20.8% meaning that it increased double in 3 years, which is debatable if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Absenteeism the proportion of employees not at work on a given day. A high rate of absenteeism tends to be an indicator of underlying problems either with the individuals involved or with the business itself. If a person is usally ill on a Monday or on a Friday more regugarly during the year that should be very suspicous for the company this might be just due to illness, hangover from a party at the weekend or on a Friday it might be because of a sporting event. As employers want the workers to work efectively for the company they have to turn up for their work, but if they are ill or don’t turn up the company still have to pay them their loan (even though some employers think this is not fair). The caste study rate of absenteeism in 2005 was 2% and in 2007 it was 3.1% this shows us that people are more often ill this might be due to not enough leisure time as a lot of companies want to keep their workers busy and not to have more workers than they actually need or the workers are just lazy and don’t want to turn up for work.

Health and safety absenteeism there might be little connection between health and safety and workforce effectiveness, however accidents often happen because of casual disregard for correct procedures, and some injuries, such as repetitive strain injury are often the direct result of poorly workstation, unrealistic workloads or poor training. Obviously your employeer doesn’t want you to get injured or hurt at your work place, but if you do by accident then there are a couple of bad things for the company coming up. One would be that a work force is missing for the company meaning that the company isnt at its maximum productive curve but also that other people need to work more for that particuarly person working, and if more than one person is missing which is very possible in a big company its very hard for the company to make profit during that months as not as much work can be done but the company still needs to pay the workers monthly. The case study rate of health and safety absenteeism in 2005 was 0.08% per worker and in 2007 it was 0.075% for this particuarly company this rate is very good as it’s a safe workplace and the workers don’t injure themselves very easily.