Pay cuts

MUFG Bank CEO, chairman to take pay cuts over safe deposit box theft

Junichi Hanzawa, CEO of MUFG Bank, and chairman Naoki Hori will have their compensation reduced by 30 per cent for three months

Bosch said that those employees, whose contracts stipulated that they work 38-to-40 hours a week, will work only 35 hours a week starting Mar 1.

German auto supplier Bosch to reduce hours for 450 employees due to tough economy

GERMAN auto parts supplier Robert Bosch will reduce the hours, and consequently the pay, of 450 employees in Germany from next spring, citing the difficult economic situation, a company spokesperson s...

Securities brokerages in China that used to offer some of the highest remunerations last year reported declines in average salaries for the second straight year.

China’s securities firms rein in pay packets as pressures mount

ALTHOUGH Chinese securities firms’ pay packets are still among the highest in the country, they are now in the shadow of an industry-wide pay cut, under pressure from the government to rein in excessi...

CICC is slashing bonuses after a tough year that saw profit drop by 30 per cent.

CICC cuts pay 40% as China crackdown roils broker bonus season

AFTER months of delays as they deliberated on how to navigate President Xi Jinping’s push for “common prosperity”, China’s biggest investment banks are now starting to pay out long-awaited bonuses.

Staff at regulators including the central bank, the foreign exchange regulator, the new authority and the securities watchdog will be paid on par with the nation’s public servants.

China’s financial regulators face deep pay cuts after revamp

CHINA’S financial watchdogs are facing massive pay cuts as Beijing overhauls the regulatory regime to further tighten the reins on the US$60 trillion industry and comply with President Xi Jinping’s “c...

The cuts apply to a few hundred senior-level managers at the company and don’t affect lower-ranking employees, including salaried workers.

Ford cuts senior manager bonuses after disappointing earnings

FORD Motor is cutting the performance bonuses of its senior managers — including chief executive officer Jim Farley — after the automaker said poor execution and supply snags led to disappointing resu...

 China’s largest online retailer after Alibaba Group Holding will set up a 10 billion yuan fund intended to help employees.

JD.com cuts salaries for about 2,000 managers by up to 20%

JD.COM is slashing salaries for about 2,000 managers by 10 per cent to 20 per cent and diverting some of the savings towards a raft of employee benefits, a person familiar with the matter said.

In Athens, thousands of people marched in the second 24-hour walkout this year over rising inflation, some holding up banners that read, “No to layoffs, no to pay cuts.”

Thousands march as Greeks strike over ‘suffocating’ inflation

GREEK workers went on a day-long strike on Wednesday (Nov 9), demanding higher wages to cope with surging inflation, as Europe’s soaring energy prices and living costs trigger industrial action and pr...

Whether in a downturn or when things are flush, the compensation that start-up founders give themselves always sends some kind of message.

How founders decide what they should get paid

Whether in a downturn or when things are flush, the compensation that startup founders give themselves always sends some kind of message.