The approximate $2 million European average for chief-executive pay can be taken as a rough guide to that threshold, with the varying strengths of public feeling on the issue indicated by the different national averages.
"Richard John Charles Tomlinson" is a former officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His career is notable because he believed he had been subject to unfair dismissal from MI6 in 1995, and attempted to take his former employer to a employment tribunal/tribunal. MI6 refused, arguing that to do so would breach state security, although Tomlinson disputed this reasoning.
In 1997, Tomlinson was imprisoned under the Official Secrets Act 1989 after he gave a synopsis of a proposed book detailing his career with MI6 to an Australian publisher. He served six months of a twelve-month sentence before being given parole, whereupon he left the country. The book, named The Big Breach, was published in Moscow in 2001 (and later in Edinburgh), and was subsequently serialised by The Sunday Times. The book detailed various aspects of MI6 operations, alleging that it employed a Mole (espionage)/mole in the German Bundesbank and that it had a "license to kill (concept)/licence to kill", the latter later confirmed by the Richard Dearlove/head of MI6 at a Diana inquest/public hearing.
More Richard Tomlinson on Wikipedia.The bricks and mortar that hold this ceiling in place are social attitudes in Europe about what constitutes excessive pay.
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