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Dirigeants de grandes entreprises : quel prix pour le sacrifice en temps de COVID-19 ?

Article discret paru sur World Best News mais bien intéressant que je vous livre ici : « The CEO’s coronavirus conundrum: how much pay to sacrifice? ».

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As corporations droop operations, scrap dividends and ship workers house, their prime executives are going through calls for to make sacrifices of their very own.

Some have acted prematurely of the pitchforks, with an inventory of voluntary pay cuts spanning sectors and time zones and together with each corporations laborious hit by the virus and those who count on to trip it out. 

Marriott chief Arne Sorenson will donate his wage to charities supporting Covid-19 reduction efforts “for the length” of a disaster through which the hotelier has put tens of 1000’s of workers on unpaid depart. Fiat Chrysler’s John Elkann, who has suspended a lot of the carmaker’s manufacturing, will forgo his annual pay. At Qantas, which has halted all worldwide flights, chief govt Alan Joyce is not going to take any wage for the rest of the 2020 monetary 12 months. BT chief Philip Jansen — who was himself taken unwell with coronavirus — mentioned on Monday that half his annual wage would go to the UK’s Nationwide Well being Service.

Within the UK greater than three dozen corporations have lower their prime executives’ wages to date, in keeping with analysis by the Monetary Instances and Minerva, the funding adviser.

Executives who profited from booming markets due to their stock-heavy pay packages are actually confronted with plunging share costs and the prospect of a painful recession that can shine a harsher highlight on the extremely paid.

Boards’ pay discussions with shareholders will probably be extra “delicate than ever” this 12 months, predicted Hans-Christoph Hirt, head of Hermes EOS, which advises buyers on stewardship points. Firms making lay-offs or slicing workers salaries “could be very effectively suggested to make sure that ache will probably be shared throughout the board and C-suite”, he mentioned. 

As corporations droop operations, scrap dividends and ship workers house, their prime executives are going through calls for to make sacrifices of their very own.

Some have acted prematurely of the pitchforks, with an inventory of voluntary pay cuts spanning sectors and time zones and together with each corporations laborious hit by the virus and those who count on to trip it out.

Executives face scrutiny from buyers about how significant their sacrifices will probably be. Advisers warn about bosses making solely “token” cuts to their salaries whereas retaining profitable bonus, inventory and pension funds. 

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