MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
The Swiss are also annoyed: windfall vote to limit “fat-cat executive pay”
The Swiss have approved a “fat-cat referendum” to limit executive pay by a crushing 68% to 32%, no great surprise perhaps given the current mood on bankers and other superrich around the globe. The referendum was the brainchild of Thomas Minder, the independent legislator who began his struggle to give shareholders in Swiss-listed companies the right to control the pay of executives and board members in 2006. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI wonder…….
Mar 05th, 2013 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If all the “Good Countries” get together against those Fat Cats……..
Where will they move?
Do they have boarding schools for bankers kids in Bujumbura?
How many 3 Michelin stars restaurants are there in Anantanarivo?
Any good Theater Companies in Ouagadougou?
Meanwhile Swiss Francs to Doughnuts there will be no limit on what politicians, departing their government gig, can make as a lobbyist, “consultant” or job that otherwise capitalizes on their pull and connections. (Based on a cheeky trial balloon proposed by a US pundit.)
Mar 05th, 2013 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder when Argentina will vote out their saggy fat-cat President?
Mar 06th, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Clunk It was a referendum by the Switzers. You know what that is? They are having one in the Falkland Islands at the end of this week if you didnt know
Mar 06th, 2013 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You off to Timbuctu to check out the restaurants?
Recommend the stewed crocodile tail with a camel dung salad. Might be just what you are looking for
PS The fishing in the Niger river aint all that good either
#1 I think so too! If only every country had a leader like Cristina, they'd have nowhere to hide!
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