The Critic Magazine

The haves and the have-yachts

IS IT TIME TO INTRODUCE a living wage for chief executives? The way we compensate our business leaders is undignified and they deserve better.

March is the most peevish of months in Britain’s boardrooms. It’s when many of our listed businesses are fussing over drafts of annual reports — and it’s the remuneration sections that tend to face the most fretfulness.

The remuneration committee chairman paces around the c-suite worrying about the impact to his “personal brand” if a few shareholders choose

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