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Tesla shareholder group urges probe, ‘appropriate remedial action’ from Nasdaq over Elon Musk’s $29 billion pay package

Fortune
Brian Dunn, director of professional programs at the Institute for Compensation Studies at ILR, commented on the nature of executive compensation packages, describing a “fog-the-mirror grant” as one you receive “if you’re around and have enough breath left in you to fog the mirror.”
Tesla shareholder group urges probe, ‘appropriate remedial action’ from Nasdaq over Elon Musk’s $29 billion pay package

Paying Respondents, IRS Records and Other Pitches to Improve US Labor Data

Bloomberg
Erica Groshen, ILR senior economic advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on ideas for improving the bureau’s data collection efforts.
Paying Respondents, IRS Records and Other Pitches to Improve US Labor Data

Here's the corporate strategy behind switching from merit increases to flat raises

Marketplace
Diane Burton, academic director of ILR’s Institute for Compensation Studies, offers insights into how different raise models – merit versus across-the-board – create different workplace dynamics.
Here's the corporate strategy behind switching from merit increases to flat raises