euro|topics - Criticism of 'golden handshakes'

Główny temat z dnia Piątek, 16. Maj 2008

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Criticism of "golden handshakes"

EU finance ministers have sharply criticised the high settlements reached between companies and top managers, and plan to tax "golden handshakes" in future. Europe's press asks whether the move is justified or just panders to populist sentiment.

Il Sole 24 Ore - Włochy

The business paper Il Sole 24 Ore reports from Brussels: "The voices of the ministers of individual states rose up in a loud chorus of protest against ... golden handshakes and unjustified super-salaries at the meeting of EU finance ministers on Wednesday. It is not easy to forge a common strategy for preventing excess and unjustified salaries in an area where each country in Europe has its own rules. ... It is essential that the ministers of all 27 member states reach an agreement. Guidelines and recommendations ... which can be accepted and followed by each individual government must be drawn up. A recommendation for managers' salaries was presented in Brussels back in 2004, but it was soon forgotten in the midst of the economic upswing at the time. ... The first step must be to take stock of the situation. ... Only ten countries have corporate codes for regulating management salaries. ... And only in eight must those salaries be approved by the general meeting." (16/05/2008)

NRC Handelsblad - Holandia

The Dutch have already submitted a draft law on the taxation of high gratuity settlements. The NRC Handelsblad is happy that Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos is no longer alone. "The most important argument for introducing measures against extremely high settlements is the psychological factor. In view of the small number of people affected, these taxes will not exactly fill the treasury. ... But extremely high gratuities for top managers poison the climate as a whole. ... In any event, if other countries join in, it will weaken top managers' threats to just go abroad. Yet action at a European level, let alone at a wider international level, is still a long way off. ... This is just the start, and now the long wait for real action begins." (16/05/2008)

Financial Times Deutschland - Niemcy

"It is true, I have nothing to say - but that is a far cry from meaning that I have nothing at all to say. With this motto, Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and the country's Minister of Finances [and chairman of the EU finance ministers] is now turning his attention to the high severance packages paid to top managers. ... Of course it is legitimate and proper that Europe's finance ministers should agree on tax questions of cross-border significance. But managers' salaries clearly do not fall into this category. On the contrary: they are private contracts between businesses and their top employees. The salaries and settlements they agree on are borne exclusively by the employers who pay them." (16/05/2008)

Kauppalehti - Finlandia

"One subject is more taboo than any other in Finland: money. At first glance it seems as if people spent their whole time talking about money, but that is merely an illusion. ... Listed companies lower a cloak of silence over payments made to their top managers. ... But just who thinks managers' salaries are such a big deal? Apparently only the managers themselves, who fear that employees and others will turn green with envy. In any event, the shareholders of listed companies want to know every last detail about managers' salaries, because they are the ones who pay them." (16/05/2008)

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