Xstrata said its independent non-executive directors only intended to recommend unanimously the first resolution.
Also limiting the supply of non-executive directors are the growing demands placed upon their time.
The Labour-controlled authority currently has a chief executive, four executive directors, five directors and 16 heads of service.
On Tuesday, the trust has named three new non-executive directors, each with track records in health and care.
"In the autumn of 2011, the conditions were very dangerous, " one of its executive directors, Benoit Coeure, told me.
Those questions lead to discussions of arts administration and the decisions made by boards, artistic directors and executive directors.
The shareholders are also planning to vote against the re-election of non-executive directors Luc Vandevelde and Michael Boskin .
Despite claims to the contrary, non-profits and their executive directors both benefit from the existence of an employment contract.
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Following these changes, the board of SSE will consist of two executive directors and five non-executive directors, plus the chairman.
Among Barclays existing non-executive directors, the leading candidate is thought to be Sir Mike Rake, who is currently chairman of BT.
Interestingly, for the first several years, all those doors led to the corner offices of CEOs, not executive directors of nonprofit organizations.
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The code could call for at least 30% of executive directors' pay to be deferred and based on long-term results, said Sir George.
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Two non-executive directors have resigned from the board of a health trust following a decision that it is to be put into administration.
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Quotas force firms either to pad their boards with token non-executive directors, or to allocate real power on the basis of sex rather than merit.
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The UK's Corporate Governance Code should be extended to ensure sufficient long-term incentives are incorporated into the pay of executives and non-executive directors, he suggested.
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Britain's corporate chairmen are up in arms over a government-commissioned review by Derek Higgs, a former banker, of the role and effectiveness of non-executive directors.
Besides Sarin, other non-executive directors facing investor wrath are Michael Boskin , Jurgen Schrempp and the former chairman of Marks and Spencer, Luc Vandevelde .
In Britain, a committee under Derek Higgs, an investment banker, is expected to recommend that boards be more open about how they appoint non-executive directors.
All this is a consequence of a series of corporate-governance reforms during the past 20 years intended to empower non-executive directors in their oversight of executives.
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Even after Sony, a consumer-electronics company, cut its board from 40 to 10 in 1997 (three of these are independent non-executive directors), reform has been patchy.
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Thunell and Margaret Ewing would join the board as non-executive directors next month and Om Prakash Bhatt and Louis Chi-Yan Cheung would join as non-executives in January.
Now that the merger has been given the go-ahead, disgruntled investors are likely to go to the non-executive directors of the combined company and demand a change of management.
"It's the concerted and unfailing efforts of these guys behind me, " referring to the group of 10 executive directors and senior managers that stood behind the two brothers as they spoke.
Flybe claim that management will be taking the biggest hit in this round of redundancies, with 20% cuts being taken at boardroom level, and all executive directors forfeiting a month's pay.
Astra's other executive directors make little impression on outsiders.
Reforms have pushed companies towards appointing a majority of non-executive directors who are genuinely independent of the chief executive, instead of the golfing chums the boss used to invite into the boardroom.
Its annual accounts, published this week, show that its five executive directors will qualify for bonuses of up to 60% of their salaries, even if the company performs worse than its much-criticised predecessor.
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One Abbey insider points out that Mr Harley would have got rid of Mr Jones far sooner than he did if he had been able to win the backing of the bank's non-executive directors.
Then last week, nine of the coalition's leaders wrote over 240 executive directors and CEO's of many of this country's largest public pension funds and private mutual fund families, as well as all fifty state treasurers.
It notes that although women in Britain account for 57% of new recruits to white-collar jobs, they make up just 17% of executive directors and a mere 4% of chief executives of the FTSE's 100 biggest companies.
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