zugzwang Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 And another box ticked in time for the GE. LONDON (Reuters) - Bonuses for Britain's bankers and insurance workers rose at double the pace of those for the total workforce last year, despite politicians' and regulators' attempts to clamp down on bumper payouts at financial firms. Employees in the finance and insurance industry were on average paid a bonus of 13,300 pounds in the year to April, up 5.5 percent on a year earlier, according to data released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Friday. Across the whole of the UK workforce, the average bonus per employee was just over 1,500 pounds, 2.6 percent higher than the previous year. Politicians have been trying to crack down on generous bonuses in financial services following the credit crunch. Many blame such incentives for encouraging excessive risk-taking, which destabilised banks that then needed to be bailed out. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-bankers-bonuses-rise-twice-161529738.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Fantastic, I can't wait for the trickle down to come our way! Open wide! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 My local dustbinmen didn't get any kind of bonus, and civilisation would come to a halt without their sterling work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve99 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) My local dustbinmen didn't get any kind of bonus, and civilisation would come to a halt without their sterling work. No! and quite rightly too, anything more than a minimum wage and they would be wrongly thinking that they were on par with their betters. And to put them well and truely in their place, the service has been outsourced to a company that only employs newly arrived EE imigrants and less of them to do the job more efficiently. The old lags can go and beg for a living which is what they deserve after half a lifetime demanding the minimum wage, the cheeky beggars!. (or so enacted my last council in the UK a few years ago) Edited August 30, 2014 by steve99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifes a game Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Only twice? that doesn't include bonuses does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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