The court decided that flipping the bird made him complicit in his own beating and thanks to them his insurance was able to halve his paid sick leave.
Masters and Kolhatkar spoke out in the wake of a recent announcement by KPFK's general manager, Leslie Radford, that to save money three staffers would be laid off and that remaining salaried staff would have their hours – and pay – halved.
And on top of that, the firm halved the total pay of some partners -- the company's highest-level employees -- while some traders got hit even harder.
The competition watchdog, which must publish its final report by 12 August, said last week that its aim was to halve the £1.2bn customers pay in unauthorised overdraft fees each year.
He questioned why G.M. needed to keep selling Saturn, Saab and Hummer models, and suggested that the company halve its dividend, cut pay for top executives and emulate the turnaround plans carried out by Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive at Nissan of Japan and Renault of France.
But even as the Competition and Markets Authority pledged the measures would halve the £1.2bn customers pay in unauthorised overdraft fees each year, consumer bodies, challenger banks and independent analysts said they would do little to crack the 77% market share Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays have on current accounts.
Under the new arrangement Morrisons will halve the amount it pays towards Ocado's research and development to £4m a year from 2018 and will no longer pay a 25% cut of any future profits from its online business for the next 15 years.
Senate Democrats scrapped Mr. Obama's proposal to halve the payroll tax paid by employers.
He believes that if executive pay is halved over the next five years it should not make any difference to the quality of candidates.
Radford said the halving of hours and pay applied only to full-time employees, including managers such as herself, and that the plan was to return to normal pay and hours in a few months.
