Le Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (UK) a récemment rendu public un projet de réforme visant à renforcer la gouvernance et les droits des actionnaires.
Government announces far-reaching reform of directors’ pay
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable today announced the most comprehensive reforms of the framework for directors’ remuneration in a decade. This package of measures will address failures in corporate governance by empowering shareholders to engage effectively with companies on pay. It will:
· Give shareholders binding votes on pay policy and exit payments, so they can hold companies to account and prevent rewards for failure;
· Boost transparency so that what people are paid is easily understood and the link between pay and performance is clearly drawn; and
· Ensure that reform has a lasting impact by empowering business and investors to maintain recent activism.
Directors’ pay: guide to Government reforms
Over the past decade, directors’ pay in the UK’s largest listed companies has quadrupled with no clear link to company performance.
« In the way we pay ourselves…now is the time to be more transparent, more responsible and more accountable. High pay must be for exceptional performance, not mere attendance. »
Gouvernance | Jacques Grisé 