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HPC Deputy Director Luke Hildyard's monthly blog for Left Foot Forward The advertising and marketing firm WPP approved the £43 million pay package awarded to Chief Executive Sir Martin Sorrell in 2014 at its AGM…

A stronger case needs to be made for the social benefits of EU membership Graeme Macdonald, the chief executive of JCB, is unfazed by the prospect of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. He says…

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…

Now it’s Fatcat TUESDAY! Top bosses pay will surpass the average full-time UK worker's annual salary after just TWO DAYS! By the end of today, Britain’s top bosses will have made more money in 2015…

January:Our research found that by 'fatcat Wednesday’, the third working day of the year, Britain's top bosses have already made more money than than the average worker will earn in the whole year. The High…

News that Helge Lund's pay award is to be reduced is welcome, but the sums of money involved remain astonishing Commenting on news that the pay package for incoming BG Group Chief Executive Helge Lund…

In this short film we explore the influence of big business on the policies that affect our lives. Many people think big business has too much power to influence policies that have an effect on…