WELSH MPs have slammed Corus chief Sir Brian Moffat for accepting a sky-high pay rise and demanded that he should show the same generosity towards steel workers.
South Wales MPs were today lining up to add their names to a Commons motion tabled by Martyn Jones, chairman of the all-party Welsh Affairs Committee.
"By any measure, Corus Steel failed under Moffat's stewardship yet he is rewarded with a massive salary increase," Mr Jones, Labour MP, for Clwyd South, said.
Newport East MP Alan Howarth indicated to the Argus that he was likely to back the motion and other MPs said the same.
The motion contrasted average salaries and bonuses paid to the highest paid directors in 456 companies of 107 per cent between 1994 and 2001.
In the same period average employee pay rose by just 31 per cent. MPs welcomed the government's plans to give shareholders a vote on deciding directors' salary increases.
Mr Jones said: "Some of the recent increases have been outrageously high but in the case of Sir Brian Moffat his 100 per cent pay rise was simply scandalous - particularly when you consider he was single handedly responsible for axing over 3,000 steel jobs in Wales."
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