Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board
In his January 30, 2010 article in the Wall Street Journal (Wage and Benefit Growth Hits Historic Low) David Wessel writes “Wage and benefit costs, both before and after adjusting for inflation, grew more slowly in 2009 than in any year since the U.S. government began tracking data in 1982, as double-digit unemployment weakened workers’ ability to command higher pay.”
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Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board
Stephen Gandel says in his January 27, 2009 article in Time Magazine (Can Financial Firms Get Executives to Give Back Pay?): “In the past few months, a number of financial firms have instituted or beefed up rules that would allow them to force employees to return year-end bonuses. So-called clawbacks would be triggered by subsequently discovered misconduct and some firms say they may even apply in cases where employees made trades that looked profitable at first, but go sour… While companies have always had the right to sue employees for ill-gotten gains, more firms are adding provisions to reclaim pay not just for illegal behavior, but poor decisions.”
While this sounds good, clawbacks are difficult to implement for several reasons
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Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board
If anyone was surprised by the announcement last week that Hewitt Associates divested its Executive Compensation Consulting business, they haven’t been following the discussion about the SEC new rule that essentially demands that companies who use multi-service firms for executive compensation and other consulting services disclose fees paid for the other services when those fees exceed $120,000. (For details go to the SEC final rules.)
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Published in Human Resource Executive Online February 8, 2010 by Mark McGraw
