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It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

— Boris Johnson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

— Ron Johnson

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

— Simon Mainwaring

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

— Ken Livingstone

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.

— Charles Platt

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

— Justin Welby

By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

— Sam Graves

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

— James Sinegal

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

— Carly Fiorina

✗Opposing Perspectives

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.