Until that point, Microchip had opted for the standard, incentive-heavy system, in which base pay represented 60% of sales compensation, and commissions accounted for the remaining 40%.

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Though a dedicated reformer, he shelved plans to overhaul the decaying pay-as-you-go pension system, after public-sector unions, his power base in Pasok, held demonstrations in protest against even the modest reforms he had proposed.

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