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13.06.14

Join the Debate – High Pay Centre’s Pay Manifesto!

Tuesday 15 July 20149:00am House of CommonsCommittee Room 21London ****TIME CHANGE****EVENT WILL BEGIN AT 9:00AM**** Please join the High Pay Centre and MP Iain Wright (Labour), MP Guy Opperman (Conservative), and Natalie Bennett (Green) to…

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13.06.14

Cheques and the City

Wednesday 23 July 20146:30pm 32-36 Loman StreetLower Ground Conference Room BLondon SE1 0EH What's behind the rise in pay for top lawyers and accountants and should we be concerned? Please join the High Pay Centre…

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Blog

10.06.14

How we can tackle the UK pay gap

The IMF has warned that low productivity is a threat to the UK recovery. That is a result of the bonus culture. It needs to be replaced by company-wide profit share. Blog by Deborah Hargreaves…

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02.06.14

Government reforms fail to bring executive pay back to reality

Research from the High Pay Centre shows that average annual pay for a FTSE 100 CEO is still around £4.5 million, and could rise to nearly £6 million in 2014 Regulations introduced by the Coalition…

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Publications

02.06.14

High Pay Centre briefing: The effect of executive pay reforms

HPC analysis of the first executive pay awards made following Government reforms in 2013 Regulations introduced by the Coalition Government to reduce the runaway growth of executive pay have had little effect, according to new…

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27.05.14

How can performance-related executive pay be made to work better?

A new project by the High Pay Centre, will look at the link between pay and performance. How can variable pay be re-designed to encourage the right sort of executive behaviour? We will explore what…

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13.05.14

Explaining the data: the background to our new animation

Sources for the figures mentioned in our new animation, income inequality in the UK The growing pay gap The animation highlights the growing difference in pay for Brenda, an experienced nurse earning the UK’s average…

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13.05.14

New film: Income inequality in the UK

A CEO takes home more in three days than one of his employees can earn in a whole year. Huge pay gaps in the UK lead to rising inequality, but it doesn't have to be…

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12.05.14

The customer is always right: how to reduce executive rewards with procurement contracts

Government could use its power as a purchaser of outsourced services to demand executive pay restraint The size of the 'outsourcing market' for public services contracted by the state and delivered by private companies is…

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Publications

09.05.14

The customer is always right: how to reduce executive rewards with procurement contracts

Government could use its power as a purchaser of outsourced services to demand executive pay restraint The size of the 'outsourcing market' for public services contracted by the state and delivered by private companies is…

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Blog

24.04.14

The public are more concerned about inequality than immigration, cutting taxes or curbing benefits

New polling found that 76 per cent of voters think big businesses has too much power over the government, HPC Head of Research Luke Hildyard writes for Left Foot Forward Last week a study from…

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22.04.14

UKIP Supporters say tackling rich/poor gap is higher priority than taxes and benefits

Party leaders warned: ‘Ignore inequality at your peril.’ 80 per cent of public put reducing pay gap as priority for government Tackling the gap between rich and poor is set to become a defining issue…

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Past Event

17.04.14

Video Launch: The Effect of Excessive Top Pay on Income Inequality in the UK

Monday 12 May 20146:30pm The Wesley Hotel81-103 Euston StreetLondon Please join the High Pay Centre and the Inequality Briefing as we launch our new short film on the effect of excessive top pay on income inequality…

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Blog

02.04.14

Can we close the pay gap?

HPC director, Deborah Hargreaves, argues in the New York Times that we need workers on boards to tackle huge corporate pay gaps The issue of pay ratios has become the latest front in a worldwide…

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24.03.14

High Pay Centre and partner organisations write to Financial Reporting Council

HPC, together with other investors and pay analysts, writes to regulator over concerns that companies are not fully complying with regulations on executive pay. Regulator responds to our concerns A group including the High Pay…

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Publications

18.03.14

Winners and Losers: the great privatisation game

Who has benefited from the Government's privatisation programme: the public or top executives? Over the past 30 years, the UK has transferred billions of pounds worth of assets from the public to the private sector.…

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06.03.14

The banks are using their political influence to defend the interests of their highest-paid employee

High Pay Centre Head of Research Luke Hildyard discusses the huge bonuses paid out at RBS In a Guardian webchat a couple of weeks ago, RBS CEO Ross McEwan described himself as being ‘pragmatic’ with…

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06.03.14

Executive pay schemes are not fit for purpose

Andrew Smithers, respected City economist, told a High Pay Centre debate that executive pay schemes reward short-term behaviour rather than investment in long-term business success Executive pay schemes are not fit for purpose and are…

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