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Say-on-Pay Rules Seen at Risk

Votes on executive compensation are credited with improving outreach to largest investors.

By Anders Melin and Caleb Melby, Bloomberg | Updated on November 15, 2016

Donald Trump, who was elected U.S president last week largely on support from working-class voters, could scrap rules designed to make pay in corporate America more egalitarian if the Republican follows through on a promise to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act.

Crafted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the law contains provisions that strengthen investors’ ability to restrain outsized pay packages for company chiefs. The bill requires clawback provisions and advisory votes on executive compensation, and mandated disclosure of a CEO-to-worker pay ratio.

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