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...tricky. And most policies are not specific enough as to when pay can be recovered. That, employment lawyers say, can lead to abuse of the policies by the companies. "No question this is going to lead to a lot of litigation," says Michael Deutsch of law firm Singer Deutsch. "Clawbacks are unwieldy and can subject employees to abuse...
...order to get around the repayment problem, a number of firms say their clawbacks will only apply to deferred compensation and not immediate cash payments. At Morgan Stanley, for instance, the firm's clawback provision only applies to the portion of their employees' compensation that is paid in deferred cash, which for most employees is only about a third of their pay. The other two-thirds of the firm's employees' compensation, paid out in cash and restricted stock, are not subject to the clawback provision. But in limiting the repayment provisions, Morgan Stanley might actually be promoting risky behavior...
Citigroup's clawback only applies to its top executives, or about 200 of the company's 250,000 employees. And it only requires employees to return pay in instances when they have broken either the law or firm policies. Bad trades are exempt. But unlike other firms, Citigroup's clawback covers all types of pay, including cash or vested stock...
Peter Misek, technology analyst for Canaccord Adams, a financial-consulting firm, says Apple may have its hand forced by impatient investors who don't want to see their money lying around unused. "If the cash pile continues to grow," says Misek, "there will be investors who ask, What are you doing with our cash...
...moves and possible mistakes the government made when it rescued the insurer. At the center of the hearing, which was held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, were the payments that AIG made to banks that bought credit-default-swap (CDS) bond insurance from the firm. Members of the panel grilled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in late 2008, as to why he allowed AIG to pay the banks the starting value of the CDS contracts when the bonds had fallen significantly in price. Other mortgage-bond insurers...