Compensation Committee

An uptick in C-level departures, which includes several “involuntary retirements,” has compensation committees rethinking their approaches to officer-level severance pay.

Jonathan Szabo of Meridian Compensation Partners spoke with Corporate Board Member about how boards can navigate the uncharted territory of involuntary retirements from CEOs and how to craft their exit packages. 

Remember when the fight over CEO pay revolved around performance? Now, Abigail Disney and her supporters seem to be saying performance doesn’t matter, either— it’s only about the pay.

CEOs and directors looking to suss out some of the big themes that are potentially emerging in this year's proxy season, here's a big one: Public-company CEOs are headed into the crosshairs.

More than half of public company directors believe diversity and inclusion metrics should be incorporated into the incentive compensation plans for the CEO and executive management team—but how best to do so remains a question.

A standardized corporate approach to clawbacks helps to promote fairness, create cohesion and to simplify details, while relying on straightforward, voluntary clawback provision agreements as part of employment plans and agreements.