WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 14, 2009 THE SUNDAYSThe Sunday Telegraph RBS INVESTORS SAY PAY CHIEF EXEC MORERoyal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Philip Hampton has had to overhaul the planned incentive package for chief executive Stephen Hester after institutional investors raised concerns that it was not generous enough. INEOS DEBT SPARKS WORRIES OVER ITS FUTUREAuditors to Ineos, Britain’s biggest private company, [...]
Dixon the risk-taker changes his tactics to thrive in the recession May 19, 2009 You could almost be mistaken for thinking Mark Dixon, the founder and chief executive of office space provider Regus, is enjoying this recession. Perhaps it is because Regus’ share price has bounced 50 per cent since March. What is clear is that the short, fair-haired, serial entrepreneur who is sitting in one of his flagship [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 17, 2009 THE SUNDAYSTHE SUNDAY TELEGRAPHINDEPENDENT BEGS A MONTH TO SORT OUT DEBTIndependent News & Media (INM) is close to a standstill pact with its bondholders which would give the company a month’s breathing space to reorganise its debt. The future of the owner of The Independent newspaper has been in serious doubt after the group failed [...]
Age law takes centre stage September 3, 2008 Hiring and firing are key area for age discrimination cases, says Jeremy Hazlehurst Earlier this week, the television presenter Selina Scott filed a claim for age discrimination against Channel Five. Scott, who is 57, said that she had been signed up to read the news while Natasha Kaplinski is off on maternity leave, but is [...]
Maternity law reform fuels an old debate July 16, 2008 Zoe Strimpel talks to employment lawyers about the impact of the new rules If you’re an employer, or a woman of childbearing age, your ears may have pricked up at the comments made this week by Nicola Brewer, CEO of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Brewer said that new legislation that extends paid maternity [...]
Advisers in all night Refco talks October 17, 2005 Refco held a second day of weekend meetings yesterday as a group of about 50 advisers gathered in New York in an effort to salvage the disgraced group’s regulated futures brokerage arm and determine the fate of its ailing operations. The advisers had begun emergency meetings on Saturday that stretched late into the night to [...]