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21.05.25

Sunday Times Rich List 2025 – Our Reflections

Our key takeaways from this year's Rich List and things we think should be getting more attention

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06.05.25

Shareholders set to approve vast CEO pay awards – but where is worker voice in pay setting process?

How we will try to hold companies to account on this issue.

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24.04.25

Employment Rights Bill will help tackle income inequality

Our thoughts on the Employment Rights Bill, the idea of maximum pay ratios and the latest Forbes Billionaire list

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06.03.25

Executive pay debate pits business lobby against wider society

HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard's contribution to a report on remuneration in the financial services sector in 2024 from HR experts Middlemore

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17.02.25

A Charter for Fair Pay

A guest post from HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard for the Fairness Foundation on how the policies proposed in our recent 'Charter for Fair Pay' could strengthen the government's legislation on employment rights and corporate…

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19.12.24

2024 ‘Wrapped’: The High Pay Centre’s year in review

A change of government and the ongoing debate about executive pay, alongside our programme of research, analysis and events, made the past year a busy one

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02.07.24

Summer Reading – Enough: Why it’s time to Abolish the Super Rich? Book, by HPC Director Luke Hildyard

Podcasts, event recordings and articles discussing and reviewing the book

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02.07.24

High Pay Centre analysis of the General Election manifestos

Less focus on tackling economic inequality in party manifestos than the 2019 election, but Labour victory could bring about most progressive reforms to worker and union rights for a generation

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14.06.24

New data shows small rise in trade union membership

Unions remain very relevant to UK economic life and continue to have an important role to play in raising pay and working conditions. HPC Director Luke Hildyard discusses UK trade union statistics

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22.04.24

Who Are the Actual ‘Sober Realists’ in the Inequality Debate?

Bold measures are pragmatic at a time when advanced economies are seeing income and wealth concentration levels near historic highs. HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard writes for Inequality.org

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11.04.24

Why CEOs are unlike Premier League footballers

Highly-paid business leaders frequently compare themselves to superstars in sports or entertainment, but for a host of reasons, the analogy doesn't really work. Blog from HPC Executive Director Luke Hildyard

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09.04.24

The pragmatic case for tackling billionaires

HPC Director Luke Hildyard writes for Labour Hub asking why supposed political pragmatists are not more interested in more efficient use of the income and wealth currently flowing to the super-rich

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