Your article (Chancellor signals pay squeeze for public sector, 6 July) uses misleading earnings figures which seemingly give credence to the urban myth.
Agreements have been reached with 19 companies to cease their misleading practices and pay a total of $350,000 in penalties.
Servicers misleading borrowers who pay in advance.
This is a highly misleading benchmark.If current pay practices are compared with those of the recent past, then the option explosion may be the most beneficial change in corporate policies in the post-war period.
It says its brand reputation is being damaged by "false, misleading and inauthentic" reviews paid for by sellers seeking to improve the appeal of their products.
"It is the Statistics Authority's view that the use of the 23% on its own, without qualification, risks giving a misleading quantification of the gender pay gap".
After being investigated for years over extensive allegations of corruption in half a dozen deals from the mid-1980s, in 2010 BAE admitted to false accounting and making misleading statements, and agreed to pay out almost £300m in penalties in the US and the UK.
The next thing is that the Republican Party (my party and yours) has for the last 30 years or so been operating under a demonstrably false and misleading premise: that tax cuts pay for themselves by generating so much economic growth that they replace the sums lost by tax cutting.
And this is what the Statistics Authority states is " a misleading quantification of the gender pay gap" that "may undermine public trust in official statistics".
Now a letter has been sent to Harriet Harman by Sir Michael Scholar, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority (the official watchdog on the use of government stats), saying that her use of the 23% figure "may undermine public trust in official statistics" and "risks giving a misleading quantification of the gender pay gap".
