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...Corporate Library. Other surveys, which don't account for exercised stock options, found just single-digit increases in salary and bonus. And, yes, corporate profits rose sharply during 2003, up 18%. But that wasn't the case in 2002, and the gap between pay for the average worker and the typical large-company CEO has widened further. The typical CEO now makes $301 for every $1 paid to the typical employee. That's up from...
...paychecks. Over the years a few companies have put CEO pay caps in place, but many have either abandoned or raised them in the face of competition. Socially progressive Ben & Jerry's, which for a decade capped executive pay at seven times the salary of the lowest-paid worker, dropped the provision in 1994 when it sought a CEO to replace co-founder Ben Cohen. Whole Foods Market, the popular organic supermarket chain, has raised its cap twice--from 8 to 1 in 1997, to 14 to 1 today, though that's still considered...
...leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season with France's first gay wedding by marrying Bertrand Charpentier, 31, a nurse's aide, and Stéphane Chapin, 33, a warehouse worker...
...Another worker who also did not want to be identified said that workers were wrong to vote in favor of the strike authorization...
...worker present at the meeting who did not wish to be identified said that “almost all” of the workers at the meeting voted against the contract and “at least 70 percent” of workers voted in favor of the strike authorization. Official estimates of the vote were not available...