{"id":3420,"date":"2018-10-19T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/persimmon-boss-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-75m-bonus\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:25:38","slug":"persimmon-boss-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-75m-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/persimmon-boss-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-75m-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Persimmon boss refuses to answer questions about \u00a375m bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Persimmon boss Jeff Fairburn has walked off camera during a BBC interview after being asked about his \u00a375m bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fairburn said it was &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; he had been asked about the payout.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fairburn was initially awarded shares worth more than \u00a3100m in 2017 but after a public backlash he later agreed to reduce it to \u00a375m. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, the bonus was thought to be the biggest ever awarded at a listed company, and one shareholder called it &#8220;grossly excessive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fairburn has previously said he will give a &#8220;substantial proportion&#8221; of the bonus to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Interview by Spencer Stokes, business and transport correspondent for BBC Look North.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45911792\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persimmon boss Jeff Fairburn has walked off camera during a BBC interview after being asked about his \u00a375m bonus. Mr Fairburn said it was &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; he had been asked about the payout. Mr Fairburn was initially awarded shares worth more than \u00a3100m in 2017 but after a public backlash he later agreed to reduce it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}