France, May 2 -- The chief executives of France's top 40 listed companies (Cac 40) were paid an average of 130 times more than their employees in 2022, according to research by Oxfam France published Tuesday.

What's more, the gap is widening. Between 2019 and 2022, salaries in listed companies rose by 9 percent, while those of CEOs increased by 27 percent.

"We have a sort of podium of inequality," Oxfam's advocacy officer for regulation, Lea Guerin, told RFI, citing the three companies where the charity identified the most glaring gulf.

Disparity was greatest at Teleperformance, the world's number-one call centre group, where CEO Daniel Julien earned 1,453 times more than the average salary in his group - a gap Guerin described as "mor...