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28.06.20

Re-thinking reward: interim High Pay Centre analysis of new pay ratio reports

Our analysis of the first ‘pay ratio’ reports finds some limitations to the disclosures, but also identifies the potential to raise pay for low earners through redistribution from those at the top

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29.05.20

Webinar – A fair deal for workers: what will responsible business mean post COVID19?

Tuesday 9 June 20201:00pm Zoom webinar Speakers Katie Jacobs - Business Journalist Duncan Brown - Independent Reward Adviser and Researcher; Visting Professor, University of Greenwich; Principal Associate, Institute of Employment Studies Alice Martin - Labour…

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26.04.20

High Pay Centre Briefing: Corporate Response to the Economic Shutdown

At least 18% of FTSE 100 firms are using the UK Government’s furlough scheme. 37% have cut executive pay and 33% are withdrawing or withholding dividend payments

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09.04.20

We can’t do more for low-paid workers without tackling excess pay at the top

recognition of low-paid workers is welcome, but for things to change, we need tough choices not warm words. Changes to corporate governance structures, stronger trade union rights and more progressive taxation There’s a growing recognition…

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18.03.20

Conditions are critical: publicly-funded bail-outs for private companies

Government bail-outs of large businesses affected by the coronavirus must include social and environmental conditions including fair pay, fair tax contributions and worker representation on company boards Our new discussion paper, published today (Thursday 19…

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27.02.20

Billionaires and poverty should not coexist

It's ludicrous to suggest that we need billionaires to incentivise work and wealth creation. A billion pounds is an almost incomprehensible amount of money. One of the most successful tricks that the rich and powerful…

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27.02.20

Purpose Beyond Profit: Where Next for Business?

WATCH IN FULL: an expert panel discuss the future of business and what action is needed to tackle climate change and reduce economic inequality On 26 February 2020 Oxfam and the High Pay Centre hosted an…

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20.01.20

Working 9 to 5. What will pay ratio reporting mean? Will it change anything?

Wednesday 19 February 20202:30pm Standard Life Foundation, The Gherkin30 Saint Mary AxeLondon EC3A 8BF Speakers Luke Hildyard, Director, High Pay Centre (Chair)Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Adviser, CIPDJanet Williamson, Senior Policy Officer, TUCTom Gosling, Partner,…

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20.01.20

Purpose Beyond Profit: Where Next for Business?

Wednesday 26 February 20206:30pm The Foundry17 Oval WayLondon SE11 5RR The belief that the sole responsibility of business is to maximise profits for shareholders is losing favour. Shareholder primacy is under scrutiny for increased environmental…

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05.01.20

High Pay Day 2020: Scope for fairer pay and lower inequality remains considerable

Pay for the typical FTSE 100 CEO in 2020 has already surpassed the amount the average UK worker earns in an entire year. We can do much more to achieve a better balance between those…

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19.12.19

Work for HPC – applications for a Researcher now open!

We're recruiting! Find out how to apply here We are recruiting for a new researcher! This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic person, keen to address these important issues as part of our small…

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Publications

10.12.19

High Pay Centre briefing: regional economies across the EU

The UK's poorest regions are falling behind the rest of Europe New research published today based on data from the European Union shows that the UK's poorest regions have fallen further behind the rest of…

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03.12.19

Labour’s plan for stakeholder votes on boardroom high pay might just work

HPC Head of Policy and Research Ashley Walsh blogs on a new report commissioned by the Labour Party Labour’s frontbench grabbed headlines earlier this week by considering plans to involve employees and customers at the…

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13.11.19

How the Shareholder first business model contributes to poverty, inequality and climate change

new briefing from the High Pay Centre and the TUC Research by the TUC and the High Pay Centre shows the extent to which returns to shareholders, in the forms of dividend payments and share…

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05.11.19

Maximum Pay Ratios

HPC Director Luke Hildyard's essay published by Autonomy and Verso in 'The New Economy Starter Pack'. Why it's time to rethink income, not just at the bottom of the ladder, but at the top too.…

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04.11.19

Curbing top pay: Does making the rich poorer make the poor richer?

Wednesday 13 November 20192:00pm Syndicate 3, Congress House23-28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LW Speakers: Robert Joyce, Deputy Director, IFS Maya Goodfellow, Writer/Researcher Helen O’Connor, Regional Organiser, GMB Luke Hildyard, Director, High Pay Centre (Chair)…

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22.10.19

We have to stop the demonisation of ‘unskilled’ immigration

Policymakers' hero worship of "skilled" immigration has failed - blog by HPC Executive Director, Luke Hildyard for Left Foot Forward Future immigration to Britain will be governed by an “Australian-style points-based immigration system” that prioritises…

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03.10.19

Is the Thomas Cook boss right to defend his high pay?

Is Peter Fankhauser, boss of now-collapsed Thomas Cook, right to defend his high pay and bonuses? NO, says Ashley Walsh, head of policy and research at the High Pay Centre. Thomas Cook failed because it…

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