The Government has launched a consultation on measures to strengthen corporate governance, seeking views on options to strengthen worker ‘voice’ in the boardroom and reform executive pay. The proposals from part of the Government’s strategy to help ensure that the UK has an economy that works for everyone. The proposals set out a range of options for strengthening shareholder influence over directors’ remuneration. Key proposals relating to executive pay and ‘employee voice in boardrooms, include: (i) Reporting ratios comparing CEO pay to pay in the wider company workforce (publication of this ratio will, in fact, become a requirement for listed companies in the US from January 2017); and (ii) Company boards creating stakeholder advisory panels to provide feedback to directors, or appointing individual stakeholder representatives to company boards.

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