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Centrica boss blasted
CHRIS O’SHEA’S £4.5 million (€5.08 million) takehome pay and £3.7 million (€4.18 million) bonus was greeted with outrage in the UK.
O’Shea is CEO of British Gas’s parent company Centrica and angry consumer groups told him to “examine his conscience” as millions of UK households struggled to pay for heating.
The CEO’s rewards were five times higher than the previous year although that time the Centrica boss waived his bonus owing to high energy bills.
The company announced record profits not long after the Times newspaper revealed that debt agents working for British Gas had been breaking into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit prepayment meters when they were unable to pay their bills.
These disclosures produced protests from consumer groups who had been campaigning for atrisk families to receive more support to help them with
