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8 Employee Incentives That Work: Best Practices from US MNCs

Empuls

By offering well-structured rewards—whether monetary bonuses, recognition programs, or flexible work arrangements—companies can foster a positive work environment that drives employee satisfaction and retention. How do bonuses, and profit sharing impact the employees?  A and $10.51 per hour, respectively.

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M&A in your future? You need an Employee Benefits Audit.

CorpStrat

Review any and all TOP HAT or executive compensation programs, and be sure to address any unfunded liabilities or promises like bonus agreements. Prepare any desired s everance and retention bonuses and consider equity/phantom stock agreements that could help assure continuation for key people.

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Glass Lewis and ISS Announce Updates For 2024 Proxy Season

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

This update makes several changes to how the proxy advisory firm will evaluate company policies related to executive compensation. Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) also released updates to its voting policies for 2024, including new and updated responses to its Compensation Policies FAQ.

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[Podcast]: Employee Retention Issues

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

David Teigman: Hello and welcome to The Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insight on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. Nick LaSpina : One common approach right now is awarding retention bonuses. Are they really market compensation at this point in certain industries? David Teigman : That’s a fair point, Nick.

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“Clawback Comeback”: DOJ’s New Focus on Clawbacks to Prevent Corporate Crime

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

This new focus on “clawbacks” is intended to give general counsels and chief compliance officers the tools to implement “responsible corporate behavior” and to foster a corporate culture that both deters and punishes risky (and possibly criminal) behavior by top executives.

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Federal tax reform: 5 HR must-dos for every business

Insperity

Topics being discussed include re-evaluating major areas such as corporate tax structure, executive compensation, employee bonuses and depreciation of assets. If you’re not planning to hire more employees, you may be able to give raises or one-time bonuses that will help retain employees.

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Learn from payroll year-end mistakes or repeat them

Business Management Daily

According to our tally, you’ll probably be crossing paths with Accounts Payable, Benefits, HR and the executive compensation committee. Executive compensation committee: 20% excise tax on golden parachute payments, income from the exercise of nonstatutory stock options and nonqualified deferred compensation.