America’s shareholders find a voice to condemn undeserved compensation
IT IS too soon to call it a trend, but the fact that America’s normally passive shareholders have voted against executive pay packages at two big companies within a week suggests that something is going on. The 54% of votes cast against the remuneration of Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s chief executive, at the phonemaker’s annual meeting on May 3rd, marked the first time that American shareholders had ever rejected a boss’s pay. Four days later they did it again, voting against the wages of Ray Irani, boss of Occidental Petroleum.
Such expressions of discontent are unprecedented in America, not least because until recently no one bothered to ask shareholders to approve executive pay.
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