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Success for Tesla shareholder as judge voids Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package

February 1st, 2024


A judge has ruled in favour of a small Tesla shareholder, voiding Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package and calling it “unfair” to shareholders.…

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Tesco equal pay

UK supermarket chain Tesco faces its first equal pay claims that could add an extra 4 billion to its wage bill. The action has been brought by law firm Leigh Day, which said it had started submitting claims on behalf …

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High Pay Centre CEO pay

In its annual review of the pay of FTSE 100 chief executives and average UK employees the High Pay Centre, now working with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), found that by 4th January, dubbed Fat Cat

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Sky

Independent investors in media group Sky voted heavily against the remuneration report with just 36% of shareholders giving it their backing at the AGM this week (12th October). Chairman James Murdoch received a narrow vote in support of his re-election …

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Deutsche Borse pay cap

Financial exchange group Deutsche Börse has introduced a cap on the total remuneration of its executive board members. The company said the decision to introduce the cap was taking at its supervisory board meeting this week and was part of

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CEO pay revolts

The UK government has signalled that it will taking a shareholder and stakeholder market-based approach to governance reform rather than introducing more rules on executive pay. According to early briefings reported in the on  Financial Times (FT) and Daily

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CEO pay ratio disclosure rule

Demand for CEO pay ratios has increased with initiatives in the US and UK focusing on the discrepancies between director and employee pay and the need for more regulation.

US Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and eight other senators have written

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Manifest Total Remuneration Survey

WPP, whose chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell last year caused headlines for a £70m pay package, has announced its final investment performance figures for its controversial long term incentive scheme, LEAP.

The WPP figures show that Sir Martin Sorrell …

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Thomas Cook pay

Travel company, Thomas Cook received a warning on pay this week at its AGM when the voting results showed that some investors at starting to take a joined up approach to remuneration-related voting. This is a signal to all companies …

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SEC Securities & Exchange Commission

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking comments from companies are encountering as they look to comply with the CEO Pay Ratio disclosure rule which took effect for financial years from 1st January 2017. The rule, hotly debated …

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