Bumper pay packets for bosses at UK's largest firms show we really aren't all in it together

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The two bodies that published the report say companies risk undermining the solidarity created by the pandemic and call for reforms to pay setting remuneration committees. It's worth a try, says James Moore

boss David Lewis, who hauled in £6.42m - a 33 per cent increase over the previous year? Or was it the Tesco staff who put themselves at risk by turning up to work every day where they were handed T-shirts bearing the legend “we’re in this together”.

 

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Why would the top execs care about what the actual workers think of feel - one year's pay for them is more than any worker would earn in a lifetime... That said, it is the immoral shareholders and board members who allow such enormous greed to flourish.

artemis0801 News Flash: You never were. The difference is now they don't even try to be subtle in their perfidy.

Profit margins grow while people die... this country is an absolute disgrace... how does a government allow for such pay to be awarded? It's astonishing how little the people at the 'top' of the pay scale care about those at the bottom... it's just so ridiculously unfair.

Morality is disappearing at face pace

Tesco boss David Lewis, who hauled in £6.42m - a 33 % increase over the previous year? And they are axing thousands of cleaners across 2000 branches!! What have these CEOs done to deserve a 'pay rise' during a pandemic

Did anyone really believe we were?

Was anyone dumb enough to ever believe we were 'all in it together?'

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