Ballooning executive pay is at last coming under scrutiny

In the 1980s FTSE 100 bosses were paid 20 times their staff’s average, now that pay gap is 129 times

Over the weekend, an heir to the Walt Disney fortune entered the debate over high levels of corporate pay and increasing inequality.

Besides marking a significant intervention over Disney’s legacy, his granddaughter Abigail Disney’s comments about company chief executive Bob Iger’s remuneration come as the latest signal that the gap in pay that has opened up between company boardrooms and ordinary workers is reaching unsustainable levels.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2IR5hYJ