The company's remuneration report was approved at a meeting in London, effectively endorsing a substantial bonus for Mr. Dudley, who took over at BP in 2010 from Tony Hayward following the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Danish welfare system and its insistence on a more egalitarian approach to a market economy than say the British model, is another reason why the prospect of a substantial bonus for people employed in the financial sector in Denmark looks rather different than it does for those British City movers and shakers.
In return for substantial bonuses and guarantees of lifetime employment, "Big Six" agreed, finally, to let the newspapers bring computers and electronic typesetting into composing rooms, which were still being run much as they had been for 90 years, with clanking machines that cast type in hot lead, one line at a time.
To be sure, the best performers on the most profitable desks will still receive substantial bonuses.
As a recent purchaser of H. J. Heinz stock, I was not pleased to read about the substantial bonus and stock options for the chief executive during the most recent fiscal year ("At Heinz, a Novel Way to Say the Boss Is Worth It," Aug. 10).
Ferguson is among the players who would receive a substantial bonus — in his case, $750,000 — for attending a specific number of off-season workouts.
The head of the bank's remuneration committee, Sir John Sunderland, was criticised this week for telling the banking commission that Diamond deserved a substantial bonus despite the Libor scandal that led to his sudden departure.
Several foreigners receive a base salary of $400,000 to $500,000, plus a substantial bonus.
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