Earlier this month, a bank worker in Essex, UK, who was earning £7 an hour as a HR assistant for Lloyds Bank, went on Facebook and posted a comment about the bank's new CEO's salary, that he was going to be paid £4,000 an hour and that she just gets £7 an hour. She was later fired for her comments.

It was revealed earlier that the new CEO was offered a salary of £13.5 million to poach him from the Spanish bank Santander, and will benefit from nearly £900,000 in pension contributions. But this generous pension package has stirred the wrath of public and private sector workers and taxpayers alike. After Lloyds was bailed out by the government during the 2008 recession, taxpayers own 41 percent of the bank. Workers have been frozen out of their own salary pension schemes by companies due to the poor economic times.

The worker said she did not reveal anything that was confidential. A spokesman for Lloyds said that the worker's firing had nothing to do with the Facebook comment, that she was employed on a short-term basis and that her contract was coming to an end.

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