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The EU's shareholder rights directive potentially introduces some important rule changes on executive remuneration such as a limit to share-based pay and publication of a ratio between top and average Calling all MEPs This blog…

Provocative pay package will undermine public faith in business Commenting on the disclosure of WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell's £43 million pay package, High Pay Centre Deputy Director Luke Hildyard said: Sir Martin Sorrell has…

A blog for British Influence, based on our report highlighting the key role the European Union's (EU) plays in ensuring vital workers’ rights and arguing that tackling inequality should be part of the case for…

Our new report examines public attitudes towards existing rights at work guaranteed by EU agreements, and potential ways in which the EU could tackle inequality UK public supports role for EU in tackling inequality... even…

Most big company performance measures in the UK are based on profits and share price - often judging companies relative to others, so that executives can still be rewarded even if shareholders lose out. The…

The increasing number of ministers and senior civil servants recruited from the private sector to government ensures that policy favours big business Our new report highlights the way business ideas have become entrenched in the…

We frequently hear that well-paid executives are 'wealth creators' who deserve their massive pay packages. Our new report asserts that top bosses are actually not as indispensable as their pay and status indicate. We frequently…

Drilling down into some of the individual answers in our IOD poll, directors mention ethics, employees and reputational risk more than you might think, writes Deborah Hargreaves Ethical behaviour matters to business leaders more than…

Addressing dysfunctional levels of corporate pay is necessary to create the kind of stable society that business needs in order to flourish. Luke Hildyard's column for Left Foot Forward The astonishing sums of money raked…

Business leaders from across the UK say excessive pay for those at the top is the biggest threat to the reputation of business Excessively high pay for big business leaders is the biggest threat to…

HPC Deputy Director Luke Hildyard's column for Left Foot Forward asks whether business leaders are as wise as they think Funnily enough, it was Boris Johnson who inadvertently had one of the most sensible things…

High Pay Centre Deputy Director Luke Hildyard's column for Left Foot Forward Today (tuesday 6 January) is ‘Fatcat Tuesday’, the day on which the amount of money made by Britain’s top executives will surpass the…