Time to answer questions about pay of directors
Companies need to recognise that the "new normal" of governance requires full disclosure.
Probing how much individual professionals earn is usually not kosher. A recent poll of 1,000 Americans revealed that 53 per cent considered discussing their income at a dinner party taboo, second only to "the sex lives of those present" (59 per cent).
Taboos may vary from culture to culture, but it would appear we have a similar discomfort around director remuneration disclosures in Singapore, based simply on the low level of such disclosures by listed companies.
The Code of Corporate Governance requires that companies fully disclose the remuneration of individual direct…
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