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Trinity Mirror has proposed a pay freeze for all its members of staff earning a basic salary of £75,000 or more.

The pay freeze will affect the publisher's national titles, the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People, and regionals division, which publishes the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News, among other titles.

A spokesman told Journalism.co.uk that most staff will receive a "moderate" pay award this year as part of objectives to "pay salaries that enable us to recruit, retain and motivate high quality staff".

But higher earners could face a pay freeze under new proposals, the third freeze in a row for directors and senior managers.

"Our proposals are inevitably shaped by a high degree of economic uncertainty and, with the very limited funds available, we feel it is not fair to penalise those who earn lower salaries," the spokesman added.

According to a report by Jon Slattery, the British Association of Journalists, which represents staff at the Mirror, said the proposal was "very disappointing".

"You are proposing to deprive some very talented journalists in the BAJ/MGN Bargaining Unit of a pay rise in 2011 simply because they are well paid for their enormous contribution to the editorial excellence of the three titles," said the union, according to Slattery's report.

The BAJ has not yest responded to a request for comment by Journalism.co.uk.

In 2008, Trinity Mirror cancelled the group's 2009 annual pay review and announced a company-wide pay freeze affecting all titles and all levels of journalists and non-journalism employees.

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