Often, bad pay policy reflects bad management, says Peter Montagnon, an expert in corporate governance.
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In Japan most companies still don't have any outside directors overseeing pay policy.
Instead, the board has promised a "thorough review" of its executive pay policy.
Since 2002 listed British companies have been required to produce a remuneration report justifying their pay policy for senior executives, to be voted on at the AGM.
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At one meeting in 1975, he told them everybody wanted to avoid a statutory pay policy but he could not dodge the difficult problem of getting people to stick to voluntary arrangements.
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On Tuesday, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite - the UK's biggest union and Labour's largest donor - told the Guardian newspaper the shift on pay policy would lead to the party's "destruction".
In particular I've been pondering Vince Cable's notion that authorisation of a company's planned pay policy should require 75% of shareholders to vote in favour - and that such a vote would be binding.
But there has been little visible impact so far on its pay policy, except that Sir Peter Job is stepping down as chairman of the group's remuneration committee on October 1st (he will remain a member).
One leading fund manager said to me that he feared that if the threshold for success was 75%, as some have suggested, company chairs would have to spend all their time working through the minutiae of company pay policy with shareholders, and too little time setting the wealth-creating strategy of their companies.
These increases could total up to 13% more than what individual policy holders might have had to pay for an insurance policy had there never been an Affordable Care Act.
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If you are part of the working poor, or do not get coverage through work, the government will assist you in helping to pay for the policy they are requiring you to buy.
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For example, if you just need the policy to pay off the mortgage and you have 15 years left on the loan, a 15-year term policy should be enough.
Properly structured, the policy will pay out a death benefit that escapes both estate tax and income tax.
If I lose a foot, or a hand, my disability insurance policy will pay benefits for at least 23 months.
Too bad U.S. foreign policy makers pay so little attention to economics.
Citi's revised clawback policy recoups pay where executives are responsible for material financial or reputational harm, either through their own actions or in failing to supervise others.
To cover a spouse and kids, a worker would have to pay for a family policy through his employer or buy one on the individual marketplace.
Young, who has been in charge of the Blues since their inception in 2003, is under pressure to deliver silverware this season, but Davies says that his policy could pay off.
In other words, a good actuary could perhaps have looked at the claims data and had a very clear notion of how much AIG was going to pay out on the policy and when.
You know, until lawmakers and policy makers and corporations acknowledge that it is not good economic policy as well as social policy to pay wages that force workers to turn to public assistance to support themselves, which means that that impacts taxpayers and it is not good economic policy as well as social policy...
Most of us understandably pay attention to the big policy issues, such as the ones covered by the three previous resolutions.
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Ms. SABINE HADDAD (Israeli Population Registry): What happens is like the two, three last years, all the authorities didn't pay much attention to this policy.
Solution: Give every family a voucher big enough to pay for a private insurance policy that would cover bare-bones medical needs (no patented medicines, for example).
If you don't pay the premiums, your policy could lapse, and your spouse will end up with neither life insurance nor a pension when you die.
During the recession, corporate clients started limiting the number of hours a firm could charge and made it a policy not to pay for first-year associates, explains Don Liu, general counsel for Xerox Corp.
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"Teachers are already suffering from pay freezes, job losses and increases in pension contributions - they now face pay cuts due to a policy based on ideology not evidence, " said National Union of Teachers' leader Christine Blower.
Few among the electorate pay attention to debates about policy. (Nor, for that matter, do MPs.) Instead politicians seek emotive issues as a pretext for presenting themselves as stout defenders of their voters, the supposedly offended victims.
And in picking Key, Napier and Morgan - the latter also selected in the one-day squad after making 23 appearances for Ireland - they have opted for players who have a good Twenty20 record at domestic level, although that policy did not pay off two years ago when Darren Maddy, Chris Schofield, Jeremy Snape and James Kirtley were chosen for the inaugural tournament.
In part this is because of relatively low pay and an ultra-frugal policy on managers' business expenses.
Pay deals are breaching the incomes policy agreed between the Fianna Fail government of Bertie Ahern and the trade unions.
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