Compensation

Compensation

Companies Help Hourly Workers Get Through COVID-19

Eight in 10 CFOs say they'll offer benefits and/or monetary compensation that exceed their contractual obligations to hourly employees.

David McCann
March 24, 2020
Compensation

Wells Fargo Cancels Ex-CEO’s $15M Stock Award

The bank indicated Tim Sloan did not do enough to resolve the regulatory problems it faced in the wake of its fake-accounts scandal.
Compensation

More CEOs Must Retain Equity Awards Post-Vesting

If current trends hold, eventually stock-retention requirements for CEOs may be almost as universal as equity ownership requirements.
Compensation

To Make More Money, Find a New Job

Last year was a banner one, pay-wise, for executives who switched employers, but still a less-lucrative one than job-hoppers enjoyed a few years back.
Compensation

Do Clawback Policies Accomplish Their Desired Purpose?

They may, but new research surprisingly suggests that clawbacks may also prompt managers to drive down their companies' effective tax rates.
Compensation

CEO Pay Is Higher When the CFO Is Newly Hired

Research suggests finance chiefs are prone in early years on the job to "manage earnings," perhaps because of compensation-motivated pressure from the boss.
Compensation

Goldman Workers Feel Pinch of Digital Shift

The bank set aside 35% of its revenue for staff compensation and benefits so far this year, the lowest since at least 2009.
Hiring

CA’s Gig Law Sparks New Need for Business Agility

Following in California's footsteps, every state could potentially adopt its own law regulating companies' use of gig workers.
Compensation

Clorox Links Executive Pay to Sustainability

Compensation awards for Clorox's CEO, CFO, and other executives will be tied to meeting environmental, social and governance goals.
Compensation

Performance-Based Pay Comes Under Fire

The Council of Institutional Investors and prominent compensation consultant Farient Advisors both question the wisdom of awarding performance shares.
Compensation

DOL Updates Overtime Rules

An estimated 1.3 million employees could become eligible for overtime pay under the rule.
Compensation

Are Companies Paying Too Much for New Talent?

Workers want pay raises of 10% to switch employers, but companies are offering them 15% hikes: Gartner report.
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