Sentence examples for cutting compensation from inspiring English sources

The musicians argue that cutting compensation would damage artistic quality and that managements should do more to raise money and reduce administrative costs.

At a time when investment banks are cutting compensation and shifting to stock bonuses, Three Ocean plans to pay bonuses entirely in cash.

While those results beat analyst expectations, they were bolstered in part by a round of belt-tightening that included cutting compensation and even the use of car services.

Warning that the strike might be a long one, Robert Master, a union spokesman, said the workers were angry because the company seemed intent on cutting compensation costs even though it had $22 billion in profits the last four years.

As banks reduce their research budgets, they are cutting compensation, pulling back on frills (no more booze cruises, for example) and demanding that analysts cover more companies for less pay.

There has been no mention, however, of cutting compensation for trustees and executives, which accounts for a bigger chunk of expenditures -- almost 16percentt of the average annual expenses foundations counted toward meeting the 5 percent target in the decade ending 1999, according to Internal Revenue Service data compiled by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

While it was "sensible" to make the delivery change, he did not back cutting the compensation period to two months: "We do not support reducing compensation claim times from a year to two months, as Royal Mail admits that almost a third of customers take more than two months to claim.

Achieving a more respectable 15 percent would have required cutting the compensation ratio to 33 percent, a bit lower than in 2009.

Reducing eligibility for disability payments or cutting unemployment compensation, raising the retirement age, and decentralizing collective bargaining were also recommended.

Business on Wall Street has picked up somewhat in 2012, but firms are still cutting both compensation and other expenses to save money and improve their profits.

The Treasury did not dispute the auditor's tally of individuals getting more than $500,000, but said that on an average basis, it had succeeded in cutting executive compensation at the seven companies dramatically.