Thursday, June 28, 2012

Firms Cringe at Revealing CEO-Worker Pay Gap




As the final shareholder votes on executive pay round out this year's proxy season, companies are already fighting on another pay-related front, according to a WSJ report.

At issue is a rule that could force them to disclose the gap between what they pay their CEO and their median pay for employees, a potentially embarrassing figure that many companies would like to keep private.

The rule's supporters—a group that includes labor unions, institutional shareholders and left-leaning activists—say it would force companies to consider rank-and-file workers during boardroom discussions over CEO pay and could put the brakes on executive compensation, which has been rising faster than ….

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