As You Sow has issued an excellent; new report evaluating the 47 companies responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions, based on the incentive compensation based on achieving environmental goals. The companies were assessed on three indicators: One company got a B. Four got Cs. None got an A. Their findings:
Category: compensation
Advisory Firm Slams $12M Payout to Coca-Cola GC Who Left After Diversity Dust-up | Corporate Counsel
The powerful proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. slammed the Coca-Cola Co. in a report, saying the $12 million consulting deal it hammered out with former General Counsel Bradley Gayton was so over the top that shareholders should vote against the company’s executive compensation plan.“Shareholders may reasonably question whether such outsized payments upon a voluntary…
Agenda – Pay Cuts Unlikely to be Popular with Executives
In a rare move, the embattled heavy machinery production giant General Electric bowed to investor pressure and cut a previously awarded pay package for CEO Larry Culp this month. Still, investors say they are not satisfied with the board’s attempt to address their concerns about what they view as a poorly aligned executive pay regime….
ESG Metrics in Incentive Compensation
Pay Governance has a new report on ESG metrics in incentive compensation. The full report is below. Highlights: In 2020, 22% of survey respondent companies indicated they included ESG metrics in their incentive compensation plans; for 2021, 29% of companies reported they have incorporated ESG metrics in their incentive plans while 21% of companies indicated…
Should You Reward Your CEO with Stock Options?
When Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg was ousted from the company for his mismanagement of the 737 Max crisis, he left with stock options worth at least a net $18.5 million. At the same time, Boeing’s shareholders took a beating, with the stock losing 25% of its value. Muilenburg, in other words, left with a big…
Investors Want ESG Targets in CEO Pay
From Veritas The investor landscape around ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) metrics in executive compensation programs is quickly evolving as institutions are pressured to set stricter, and more public, policies covering this formerly niche area, rating agencies are increasingly reporting on the use of ESG executive compensation metrics, and there are a growing number…
Comp Committees Lower Performance Benchmarks to Award Bonuses
According to Veritas Executive Compensation Consultants: Although most companies have seen their operating plans upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, compensation committees have largely declined to announce changes in the midst of the crisis to annual incentive plans for the year. Now, however, as the impact of the pandemic is coming into focus, some companies are…
Redesigning Corporations: Incentives Matter
In the 21st century, capital is so much easier to raise that we should no longer have to sacrifice other public goods or the collective common interest in order to facilitate fund-raising. Our corporate laws should reflect this fact, but do not. With the “free” tailwind of today’s easy capital-raising, corporations have become massive in…
Delaware judge says Tesla board must face trial over Musk’s mega-pay package – Reuters
This is a very unusual ruling because judges usually defer to boards’ compensation decisions as well within their discretion under the broad protection of the business judgment rule. But this was a $2.6 BILLION pay package. And, significantly, the compensation committee had conflicts. A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) board of…
Pay Ratio, Proxy Disclosure and Say on Pay Data from Shareholder Value Advisors
A webinar hosted by Stephen F. O’Byrne of Shareholder Value Advisors, revealed the meaningful and material link between compensation and shareholder value, the missing metric, and what the data show: Average employee pay can provide great insight on the alignment of employee pay with management pay and shareholder value but the required analysis goes far…
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