Amanda Holden slams government plan for NHS nurses’ wages

‘B******s to a 1% pay rise!’ Amanda Holden slams government plan for NHS nurses’ wages and says they should ‘show them the money’ The 1% pay rise has been described as a ‘kick in the teeth’ to the health workers  Unions say public will be ‘horrified’ after staff have ‘given everything’ this year  Ministers point … Read more

Chuka Umunna lands job at JP Morgan – after criticising ‘reckless’ City wages as an MP

Chuka Umunna lands lucrative job at JP Morgan – after criticising ‘reckless’ City wages when he was a Labour MP Mr Umunna is joining the bank from PR company Edelman He left Labour party in 2019 to help found the short-lived Change UK party Did not reveal new salary but in 2010 said bankers’ pay … Read more

Wayne Rooney defers portion of his wages to help Derby through their cash crisis

Wayne Rooney defers portion of his £90,000-a-week wages to help Derby through their cash crisis as newly-appointed Rams boss agrees to spread pay-packet over longer period Wayne Rooney will defer a portion of his wages to help Derby in their cash crisis The new Rams manager was given a two-and-a-half year contract last month He has … Read more

Simon Cowell didn’t pay himself ANY wages from his former company after profits fell

Simon Cowell didn’t pay himself ANY wages from his former company after profits fell by ‘nearly £30m’ In the latest paperwork filed at Companies House for SimCo Ltd it was revealed that between October 2019 and March 2020 a profit of £5.8m was made However this was down from large profits of £34.6m over an 18-month … Read more

Simon Cowell didn’t pay himself ANY wages from his former company after profits fell

Simon Cowell didn’t pay himself ANY wages from his former company after profits fell by ‘nearly £30m’ In the latest paperwork filed at Companies House for SimCo Ltd it was revealed that between October 2019 and March 2020 a profit of £5.8m was made However this was down from large profits of £34.6m over an 18-month … Read more

B&M will pay 30,000 staff a week’s extra wages amid bumper festive sales

B&M Bargains has doled out a 20p-a-share special dividend to shareholders as well as £30million to its boss Simon Arora after the cheap retailer enjoyed a bumper Christmas..  Arora and his family are the biggest shareholders in B&M, enabling him to pay himself £30million, in addition to a £44million dividend payout revealed two months ago. B&M will … Read more

Average 2025 wages to be £1,200 a year lower than prior predictions

The Covid-19 pandemic will hit the average worker’s pay packet by £1,200 by 2025, analysis by a think tank has revealed today. A report published by the Resolution Foundation has hinted the pandemic will have a lasting impact on the finances of individual Britons, alongside damaging public economics. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow says that by … Read more

Covid will hit average worker’s wages to the tune of £1,200 a year by 2025, think tank says

The Covid-19 pandemic will hit the average worker’s pay packet by £1,200 by 2025, analysis by a think tank has revealed today. A report published by the Resolution Foundation has hinted the pandemic will have a lasting impact on the finances of individual Britons, alongside damaging public economics. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow says that by … Read more

‘Sixty-seven per cent of wages doesn’t cut it!’ Northern leaders hold out for more lockdown money

Political leaders in English areas being forced into new lockdown tiers from tomorrow are trying to extract extra cash from the Government, claiming plans to prop up businesses and workers’ wages don’t go far enough. They reacted today after Rishi Sunak last night reiterated his new furlough scheme covering two-thirds of staff pay in firms … Read more

Bosses’ concern over ‘little incentive’ to pay wages of staff not in work

Rishi Sunak’s £9bn Job Retention Scheme won’t save jobs because there’s ‘little incentive’ to pay the wages of staff not in work, an influential think-tank has warned.  Business bosses have today stuck the boot into the Chancellor’s much-trumpeted plan to keep people in work, while the chief executive of Next suggested Britain’s economy risks ‘becoming … Read more