Sentence examples for Variable remuneration from inspiring English sources

The idea is to "avoid big upfront cash variable remuneration".

The aim, the authority said, was "to prevent high variable remuneration being granted merely as a result of entering into large risks and generating short-term, unsustainable earnings".

The company's pay structure, it said, "has the potential to pay excessive variable remuneration, and we note that during the year under review, this was the case".

Start-ups often want to reward staff with stock options; but the labour laws were not written with variable remuneration in mind.

As part of the guidelines, bankers would receive "at least 50 percent of any variable remuneration" in "equity-linked instruments" and the "50 percent minimum threshold for instruments must be applied equally to the nondeferred and the deferred part".

"As for the composition of the package," the reports continues, "it is heavily biased towards variable remuneration in the UK and Germany (respectively 67% and 61% of the total package).

That high level of variable pay should lead to sizeable fluctuations in total remuneration, as good years follow bad, and vice-versa.

Pirc has also called on TalkTalk shareholders to vote against both the remuneration report and policy, noting that the company's boss, Dido Harding, received variable pay equal to 1,255% of her base salary last year, including a bonus and long-term incentive award granted in 2010, 40% of which vested the same year.

"It's interesting that variable pay has spread in Europe at a time when inflation is at its lowest level for 30 years," says Brian Dive, in charge of remuneration at Unilever.

"The EBA is currently analysing this emerging practice and will set guidance criteria to correctly assign these elements to either variable or fixed remuneration so as to ensure that these practices do not lead to a circumvention of the newly introduced cap between the variable and fixed component of remuneration," the pan European banking regulator said.

However, the existing evidence suggest that both effects play an important role in explaining observed differences in output across variable and fixed remuneration schemes [ 11, 28- 30].