THE gap between the pay levels of bosses and workers continues to get wider. So much so that there are now calls for the government to consider capping executive pay.

According to recent reports, since the late 1990s executive pay has grown from 60 times that of the average UK worker to nearly 180 times.

I am sure most readers would question whether these top bosses deserve such enormous salaries.

It is not surprising that people are beginning to demand radical action to close the gap between top bosses and everyone else.

Last year, the coalition gave shareholders the power to vote down executive pay policy at company AGMs if they thought the proposed pay package was too large. This has had little impact in practice.

In a climate when top bosses can claim a pay rise of over £500,000 a year, ordinary workers have no reason to apologise to anyone for demanding decent pay increases that keep up with inflation.

Martin Challender Bolton