Specific options include giving shareholders a binding veto on board pay, changing the make-up of pay committees and making compensation, including pay ratios, more transparent.
In some cases it started off as a form of wage restraint in the dark days of the 1990s: companies cut basic wages and employees hoped that performance-related pay might make up the difference, which it did not always do.
But with the Majlis spoiling for an economic fight with Mr Ahmadinejad, it looks as though this time he may have to make Iran's over-enthusiastic motorists pay up.