article_snippet.sent: The head of the Royal College of Nursing said nurses who had faced five years of pay freezes would struggle to comprehend the six per cent pay rise for nurses who had faced five years of pay freezes bosses.
article_snippet.sent: Too often high executive pay has been awarded as a matter course, not because of exceptional performance.
article_snippet.sent: The country’s foremost pensions expert, Dr Ros Altmann, said the figures showed executives were ‘milking the system’.
article_snippet.sent: The country’s foremost pensions expert, Dr Ros Altmann added: ‘It is outrageous, it is so wrong. '
article_snippet.sent: The idea that senior executives can retire and come back to work to double-dip needs to be rethought.
article_snippet.sent: Nursing staff will struggle to comprehend that Nursing staff bosses have had an average 6 per cent pay rise when Nursing staff are only getting 1 per cent this year, having seen Nursing staff pay fall further and further behind the cost of living over the last few years.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Senior managers such as chief executives do important and highly valued work, but Senior managers such as chief executives should not be getting disproportionate pay rises and bonuses while frontline staff continue to struggle.
article_snippet.sent: ‘These pay packets are simply outrageous.
article_snippet.sent: These pay packets are indefensible.
article_snippet.sent: the NHS Pension Scheme is said massively to favour high earners.