The head of the House Financial Services Committee introduced legislation Thursday to give shareholders at public companies a say in how their top executives are compensated.
The proposal by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and 21 other Democrats provides for a vote on compensation awarded in the prior year to a company’s five most highly paid executives. However, because the ballot would be nonbinding, managers are unlikely to lose compensation in the event investors opposed their pay packages.
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