Housebuilding giant Persimmon is looking at paying bonuses to all staff as it seeks to defuse anger over its chief executive’s £109m payout.
The company’s chairman has apologised for the bonuses, which came about as the result of an unforeseen surge in the share price which was linked to the long-term incentive scheme.
One way to ensure other staff also benefited from the company’s success could be to give them all bonuses, said Marion Sears, a non-executive director at Persimmon and chair of its remuneration committee.
“In an ideal world you have a mirror image structure. I think that is the way the guidance is going, it is the best way to run a company,” she told the business, energy and industrial...