UK pay fund equals last five years profit for FTSE 100 participants, study shows

(Reuters) - FTSE 100-listed companies using the UK government's job retention scheme for furloughed workers have made as much profit over the past five years as the initial projected cost of the scheme, a study showed on Monday.The blue-chip firms that are furloughing workers had a combined profit of 42 billion pounds from 2014 to 2019, according to think tank the High Pay Centre, and have paid out 321 million pounds to their chief executives as well as 26 billion pounds in dividends.Britain's..