The £62.78m payout has been made through a controversial long-term bonus scheme known as Leap – the leadership acquisition plan.
After being forced into talks with shareholders to address his remuneration, following a humiliating annual general meeting defeat in 2012, an unrepentant Sorrell grudgingly agreed to a £150,000 pay cut, maximum bonus reduction and overhaul of WPP's controversial long-term incentive scheme.
Sorrell received a base salary of £1.3m and a cash-and-shares bonus of almost £3.1m last year – 268% of his base pay – with the surge in total remuneration fuelled by an £11.4m award of WPP shares as part of the company's controversial long-term incentive programme, the Leadership Equity Acquisition Plan.
That includes short-term possibilities, including the return to the agency of $6.9 billion in overpayments to a retiree pension fund, as well as the more controversial long-term possibilities, such as the closing of rural post offices and the shedding of employees currently protected by no-layoff clauses.
A further 14% voted against a controversial new long term bonus scheme.
Byron himself later justified his most controversial long work, Don Juan, in terms of his sexual experience.
Across arid and semi-arid Australia, predator control, pasture improvement, and artificial water points (AWP) have contributed to increased populations of kangaroos and wallaroos (Macropus spp .. Control efforts (e.g. culling, predator reintroduction, fertility control) can be expensive, controversial and/or unsustainable in the long term.
Consequently use of home oxygen outside of the setting of LTOT remains controversial [ 4]; when the Long term Oxygen Treatment Trial (LOTT; http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00692198) reports results, some of these questions may be answered.
The contribution of KD in childhood to the development of coronary artery disease in the long term is still controversial and remains a source of concern.
However, its long term outcomes are controversial.
Long term benefits are controversial and in paediatric cases, raise concern about risks of epiphyseal growth plate damage and post radiation sarcoma [ 4, 5].
