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30.04.12

Action: Have Your Say On Pay

Are you concerned about excessive pay? If you have pension savings or an ISA then you have a stake in Britain’s biggest companies. FairPensions have made it easy to contact your ISA or pension provider…

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24.04.12

Myths about executive pay

Deborah Hargreaves, Director of the High Pay Centre discusses the current debate about pay at the top As Vince Cable begins his consultation on executive pay reforms, it is clear there are a number of…

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Publications

24.04.12

Essential questions Barclays must answer on CEO Bob Diamond’s pay

Barclays is currently in talks with its shareholders over Bob Diamonds pay to prevent a revolt at the AGM on Friday With Bob Diamond’s pay set to be worth anything from £6.3m to £27m, depending…

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11.04.12

Media coverage:

The latest report from the HPC on the make-up of remuneration committees received significant media coverage. Here is just a flavour. Independent - 'Old boys' network' alive on UK Guardian - Executive pay soars as…

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Publications

02.04.12

The New Closed Shop: Who’s Deciding on Pay?

This latest report from the High Pay Centre looks at the remuneration committees that set board level executive pay in FTSE 100 companies. The study, The New Closed Shop: Who’s Deciding on Pay? found that,…

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27.03.12

Seminar report: How employees set executive pay in Germany

Deborah Hargreaves, Director of the High Pay Centre reports on the recent HPC seminar Since 2009, employees and trade unions have had a key role in setting the pay of their bosses in Germany. While…

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16.03.12

Is football the next Lehman’s?

Nick Isles, Chair of the High Pay Centre looks at footballer's pay and the impact it is having on the clubs and the players. This was the question the High Pay Centre was asked last…

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07.03.12

Event: Worker representation on boards: lessons from the German model

First in a series of seminars on Better Business hosted by the High Pay Centre & supported by FES. The first seminar will take place onWednesday 21st March 11.30 – 1.00 in a central London…

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Past Event

07.03.12

Worker representation on boards: lessons from the German model

Wednesday 21 March 201211:30am London This is the first in a series of seminars on Better Business hosted by the High Pay Centre with the generous support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung foundation. The first seminar will…

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23.02.12

Worth a read:

Former Greggs CEO calls for executive pay reform As reported in the Guardian today the former CEO of Greggs, Sir Mike Darrington has become the first senior executive to break ranks with his peers and…

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17.02.12

New members of the Advisory Board appointed

We look forward to working with Jonathon and Justine in the coming weeks, months and years. We are delighted to announce that our cross party advisory board has two new members, Justine Roberts and Jonathon…

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30.01.12

Worth a listen:

Can the bonus culture in the City change? RBS boss Stephen Hester has bowed under pressure to refuse his bonus of shares worth almost a £1m. City AM editor Allister Heath and Deborah Hargreaves Director…

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29.01.12

New polling by the High Pay Centre shows support for action on top pay

Just 7% think a FTSE 100 chief executive should be paid more than £1m per year Britain’s bosses’ pay is hugely out of line with what the public believes is justified. Of those questioned just 7%…

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Publications

27.01.12

Making the case for business reform

Five key questions on high pay, corporate governance and responsible business The latest report from the High Pay Centre Making the case for better business, sets out the five key questions the new High Pay…

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25.01.12

High Pay Centre launched

New think tank will be independent and non-partisan Following the announcements from the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Business Secretary, in Parliament on Monday we are pleased to announce the launch of the High Pay…

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