最高給取りの英ＣＥＯ、今年に入りすでに労働者の平均年収超える　調査

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英国で最も稼ぐ最高経営責任者（CEO）らは、今年に入ってから6日夜の時点で、同国の平均的な労働者の年収以上を稼いでいるとする新たな調査結果が発表された。（写真は資料写真）
　英シンクタンク「ハイ・ペイ・センター」と人材開発協会の調査によると、ロンドン証券取引所のＦＴＳＥ１００指数を構成する企業のＣＥＯの平均年収は、労働者の１１７倍に上るという。
　また、平均的な労働者の年収が２万９５５９ポンド（約４２２万１６００円）なのに対し、ＣＥＯの平均年収は３４６万ポンド（約４億９４００万円）で、ＣＥＯはたった３日で労働者の年収を得ていることも分かった。
　英国では、賃金格差や１０年間に及ぶ厳しい緊縮財政の影響が長年懸念されてきた。
　同国では現在、従業員２５０人以上の上場企業がＣＥＯと一般的な従業員の報酬額を公開し、その差が正当である根拠を示すよう法律で義務付けられている。研究者らは、賃金の透明性を高める法律が導入されたことにより、高賃金が今年の重要課題の一つになると指摘している。
　ハイ・ペイ・センターのルーク・ヒルデヤード代表は、賃金格差によって英国が「欧州で最も不平等な国」になったと述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/01/08-08:24）

By the end of Monday Britain's highest-paid bosses will have already pocketed the amount of money the nation's average worker will earn over the entire year, according to new research.
Chief executives of FTSE-100-listed companies earn 117 times the average annual salary, the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimate.
The latest available figures reveal the average worker earns ��29,559 ($38,905, 34,749 euros) a year, which an average chief executive earning ��3.46 million earns in just three days.
There has been longstanding concern in Britain about wage discrepancies and the effects of a decade of harsh austerity measures.
But researchers said high pay will be one of the key issues of this year as new measures are introduced to increase transparency over wages.
Publicly listed firms with more than 250 British employees now have to disclose and justify the difference between how much their chief executive is paid and their average worker.
The chief executive of the CIPD, Peter Cheese, said businesses were now going to be held to account on bosses' salaries but reporting numbers was only a start.
We need businesses to step up and justify very high levels of pay for top executives, particularly in relation to how the rest of the workforce is being rewarded, he added.
The director of the High Pay Centre, Luke Hildyard, said the gulf in salaries had made Britain one of the most unequal countries in Europe.
Rising social inequality and how to tackle it were central to last month's general election, which saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives win a comfortable majority.
The main opposition Labour party in particular attacked the Tories for failing to halt a growing divide between rich and poor, which was also highlighted by the United Nations.
Since the global financial crisis, the government has implemented across-the-board cuts and spending freezes.
Johnson has been urged to increase spending in disadvantaged areas of central and north England, which helped his election win because of their support for Brexit.
The Treasury last week announced a 6.2-percent increase in the minimum wage for workers aged 25 and above from April 1, taking it from ��8.21 an hour to ��8.72.
Business minister Andrea Leadsom said the figures were concerning, despite improvements since last year.