Government and Opposition promise limits on top pay
The Prime Minister has spoken out against excessive salaries, especially for 'failure'. Research from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests chief executives in 87 of the FTSE 100 companies took home an average of £5.1m in basic pay, bonuses, share incentives and pension contributions in 2010-11.
To deal with this problem, the Government is apparently considering a number of options and the Prime Minister has promised shareholders a binding vote on executive pay.
Opposition Leader, Ed Milliband, promised that a future Labour Government would implement in full a blueprint published by the independent High Pay Commission in November. Its proposals include putting employees on remuneration committees; publishing the top 10 executive pay packages outside the boardroom; forcing companies to publish a pay ratio between the highest-paid executive and the median; forcing companies to reveal the total pay earned by executives; and setting up a permanent body to monitor high pay.
Find out more about pay inequality in London.
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Read more of this story from the BBC.
Read more about the Prime Minister's interview from The Telegraph.
Read more about Labour's proposals from The Independent.
Posted on 11 January 2012
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