Currently, shareholders do not vote on broad-based plans that award options to executives and lower-level employees.
Now, companies are required to put to a shareholder vote only those plans offered to officers or directors; broad-based plans are exempt.
And broad-based plans do not need the same approval from shareholders as plans issued solely to the top five executives, thus allowing extravagant options packages for those top executives.
A broad-based plan for cooperative activities in North Korea would provide incentives for the Kim regime to comply with the difficult commitments and strict verification and monitoring that will necessarily be part of a serious denuclearization agreement.
The number of people receiving options has grown significantly in the last decade -- the National Center for Employee Ownership estimates that between 7 million and 10 million people now hold options, and a number of companies, like Intel and Sun, have broad-based plans that distribute most options to rank-and-file workers, not senior executives.
From there, Catandella, Bessire, and Johnson have robust, broad-based plans for the group, including tasting events for alumni, featuring alumni-produced wines at CAA events, and making a master list of where alumni wines are sold to make it easier for any Columbian to purchase a bottle and show their support.
"There are certainly those who insist that any immigration legislation be apart of a comprehensive, broad-based plan," says Sen. Jerry Moran (CrunchGov Grade: A), sponsor of the Startup 2.0 Act, which aims to create a visa for self-employed entrepreneurs.
But she noted that Blue Cross-Blue Shield got only a small response in 1983 when it test-marketed a broad-based plan in Alabama, northeastern New York and Philadelphia.
The zero-waste effort was unanimously approved by the City Council Tuesday, although the individual components of the broad-based plan will still need to come back for the green light before they're implemented, said Public Works Director Steve Zurn.
Within the next few years, tens of thousands of primary breast cancers will likely be sequenced but often through clinical sequencing programs without a current systematic and broad-based plan to integrate the data with clinical endpoints.
