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Protest aims to stop boss pigging out on huge pay rise

SHAREHOLDERS at energy giant Centrica are being urged to block a “staggering” 44 per cent pay rise for its chief executive today.

Iain Conn hopes to trouser £2.4 million – an annual salary 72 times more than Centrica employees in the company’s lowest-paid quartile receive.

General union GMB has written to institutional shareholders at Centrica, which owns British Gas, asking them to block the pay rise for Mr Conn.

 
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