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executive compensation
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Securities Law Prof Blog
Fannie Mae Cancels Bonuses
Fannie Mae, whose profits were overstated by $6.3 billion, announced it would not pay bonuses totalling $44.4 million to 46 current and former employees for the period 2001-04. See WPost,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Scholarship
ArticlesJoseph A. Seiner, Disentangling Disparate Impact and Disparate Treatment: Adapting the Canadian Approach, 25 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 95 (2006).Susan Lorde Martin, Executive Compensation: Reining in Runaway Abuses --…
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Stock Options Tables Still Confusing under New SEC Rules
A Washington Post article looks at the tables disclosing the value of stock options under the SEC's new executive compensation rules and finds that they don't tell the full story,…
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Aflac To Give Shareholders Nonbinding Vote on Exec Pay
Aflac will be the first major U.S. company to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation packages, illustrating the growing power of activist shareholders. Executive compensation continues to be…
Pension Risk Matters
Big Apple Pension to Bite Apple Inc Over Options
Alleging questionable stock option practices at technology giant Apple Inc, the New York City Employees' Retirement System ("NYCERS") will serve as lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed a few months…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein, & Urs Peyer, Lucky Directors (421).Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cramers, & Urs Peyer, Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team (104).Albert Feuer, How Employment Agreements…
Pension Risk Matters
Options, Pensions and the SEC
It's hard to pick up a newspaper these days without reading some story about stock options - when they are granted, how often they are repriced, what portion of an…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Corp Fin Guidance on Exec Comp Disclosure
On Jan. 24, 2007 Corporate Finance issued guidance on Item 402 of Reg. S-X -- Executive Compensation. Eighteen pages in length, there are questions and answers of general applicability, as…
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Bush on Exec Compensation, SOX
President Bush told a Wall. St. audience that corporations should link executive pay packages more closely with performance because otherwise investor's trust in the markets could be impacted. He said…
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Congress Tackles Executive Pay
Congress has attached to the bill raising the minimum wage a provision that caps at $1 million per year the amount of deferred compensation. Other attempts to limit executive compensation…