'We're losing £10k from our pay. Our boss' comments are a slap in the face'

Chief executive of Welsh Water Peter Perry

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's top boss has been accused of misleading Senedd members by claiming the company is "not attacking people's terms and conditions". Chief executive Peter Perry's statement from earlier this month has angered employees who are being stripped of a large portion of their pay.

Mr Perry – who has a £460,000-a-year base salary with total target remuneration of £894,000 – was asked by a Senedd committee whether the water supplier's executives would face pay cuts as part of its "trawsnewid" (transformation) plan to shed around 500 full-time-equivalent roles over the next two years and slash annual spending by £50m. He replied: "Trawsnewid is not about cutting people’s pay in the organisation at all. We’re losing colleagues, regret