MinuteWorks, Author at High Pay Centre

Blog

03.12.18

Labour’s plan for stakeholder votes on boardroom high pay might just work

HPC Head of Policy and Research Ashley Walsh blogs on a new report commissioned by the Labour Party Labour’s frontbench grabbed headlines earlier this week by considering plans to involve employees and customers at the…

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Publications

04.11.18

HPC Briefing: Executive pay at FTSE 100 Companies that are not accredited living wage employers

Bosses of companies that are not accredited living wage employers paid nearly £4m a year - their combined profits added up to over £85 billion Ahead of 'Living Wage Week' (beginning 5 November) new research…

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Blog

21.09.18

HPC at party conferences

Come to our events at Labour and Conservative Party conferences We will be hosting fringe events at both the Labour and Conservative party conferences over the next fortnight! With opinion polls repeatedly demonstrating the public's…

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Blog

21.09.18

Are Chief Executives overpaid? Blog by HPC founder Deborah Hargreaves

Author of new book on top pay calls for a new corporate ethos - contact HPC to attend the launch on 11 October For those of us who care about inequality and pay disparities, these…

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Publications

10.09.18

HPC response to consultation on the Wates Principles for the governance of privately-owned companies

Large private companies should be subject to the same high standards of stakeholder engagement as publicly-listed counterparts Earlier this year, the Financial Reporting Council issued the Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies. The…

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Past Event

04.09.18

Book Launch: ‘Are Chief Executives overpaid?’ by High Pay Centre founder Deborah Hargreaves

Thursday 11 October 20185:45pm The Wesley Hotel81-103 Euston StreetLondon NW1 2EZ Deborah Hargreaves is founder and former director of the High Pay Centre; she has also worked as business editor of the Guardian and as…

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Publications

15.08.18

High Pay Centre/CIPD executive pay survey 2018

New research from the High Pay Centre and the CIPD finds that median pay for a FTSE 100 CEO leapt 11% in 2017 The annual High Pay Centre/CIPD assessment of FTSE 100 CEO pay packages…

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Blog

13.08.18

The new pay ratio rules – how they’ll work and why they’re needed

Blog by Luke Hildyard for the IPA bulletin This summer Parliament approved new laws requiring UK-listed companies to publish their CEO to worker ‘pay ratio.’ The disclosures will show what the CEO makes in comparison…

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Blog

13.08.18

Job vacancy: Research and Policy Manager

Come and work for HPC! We are recruiting for a new research and policy manager! This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in issues including economic inequality, corporate power and responsible business to help…

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Blog

31.07.18

Repeated executive pay scandals make the UK’s reputation for good corporate governance look risible

High Pay Centre Director Luke Hildyard writes for Board Agenda magazine When publishing the Corporate Governance Reform Green Paper in 2016, the Prime Minister Theresa May described the UK as an ‘established international leader in…

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Blog

11.06.18

New pay ratio reporting rules: success for High Pay Centre campaign

New rules requiring companies to disclose the gap between their CEO's pay and that of their average worker have been published for Parliamentary approval After a long campaign by organisations including the High Pay Centre,…

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Past Event

24.05.18

The reality of the gig economy – event with writer James Bloodworth

Friday 29 June 201812:00pm International Transport Workers Union, 49-60 Borough Road, London SE1 1DR The reality of the gig economy, with James Bloodworth - author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in low-wage Britain Writer James Bloodworth…

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