mission et composition du conseil d’administration

mission et composition du conseil d'administration rémunération

Siéger sur un comité de rémunération : de plus en plus risqué !

Siéger sur un comité de rémunération serait-il risqué ? Oui et de plus en plus selon un article du Financial Times : « Executive pay committee chair in the hot seat » (2 mai 2016). Les actionnaires semblent en effet tourner leur grogne touchant la rémunération vers les membres du comité,

 

In the most high-profile shareholder protests seen in the UK for four years, investors have been directing their anger squarely at company bosses for their multimillion pound pay packets. (…)

With pay protests set to continue in the coming weeks, some are now turning their sights on the people who determine the bumper awards, rather than the recipients. This puts the chairs of remuneration committees directly in the line of fire — an unusual position for the holders of these generally low-profile posts. Few, if any, remuneration committee chairs are household names. But, in conjunction with their committee members, they wield immense power. Not only do they decide the fixed salary of the boss, but they also determine the bonus structures that provides the lion’s share of a pay package.

 

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Ivan Tchotourian