that the government plans would rip up that the government plans would rip up international law and urged the government to look for solutions. the uk energy regulator 0fgem says thousands of customers were provided with an unacceptable service following storm arwen, last november. 4,000 households were left without power for more than a week in the aftermath of the storm. three network providers will now need to pay an extra £10.6 million in redress payments to the affected communities on top of the 30 million they ve already paid out. but the fact of the matter is, that network companies were not ready for this. there are lots of things they need improve the resilience of the network, to make sure that people are restored quickly and to make sure principally people are communicated to around what is going to happen to them. this report sets out clear actions with deadlines, and says to the network companies you need to pay back £44 million to those customers and communities tha
average ceo made $10.6 million a year, the average low wage worker took home just under $24,000. the ips report called out big box retailers specifically for spending enormous sums on buybacks while cutting median worker pay. and the point there is that even in many of those low wage industries they saw the biggest pay increases during the pandemic, right? but the ceos saw even bigger pay increases. the gulf there is just stark when you see it laid out. when times are good, ceo pay raises faster than everybody else. when times are bad, ceo pay raises faster than anyone else. i sense a pattern. coming up, the team just sold. and cnn literally in the trenches on ukraine s southern front. to be clear, we have never been accused . we re going to go now. come on. may i?i? we re definitely not lit. i mean seriously, wewe named ourselves booking.cm
those companies made $10.6 million last year whereas the average low wage worker took home just under $24,000. and all of this, i think, gets to one of the main frustrations right now, that yes, people are making more money, but their increases are not keeping up with the cost of living, especially food and energy. and these paychecks are not even keeping up with inflation at companies that can afford to pay their ceos a lot of money. i think a lot of people have been asking as the price of dpoods continues to go up, the questions around certain price increases are truly unavoidable or whether some of these ceos are protecting their paycheck, and this report addresses that. right? that s right. they do get into that issue. let me read you the key line from the report. they said last year with the economy in recovering mode, corporate leaders shifted to new ceo pay inflating tactics. many corporations sent records on stock buybacks.
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very clear that none of us are safe until we are all safe. we are very committed to the international supplier vaccines to all countries. so far, the uk has donated 30.6 million doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine and already be scheduled in commitments for 2022 amount to another 20 million doses of oxford astrazeneca and 20 million yarns in doses that were also ascribed to the uk jansen doses. we will have given half of our total order of astrazeneca to countries in need. but we also have a responsibility to try to login and protect the gains we have made against this virus in the uk and it has a difficult balancing act.