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Minimum Wage Hike Would Give Women A Needed Boost
Recently, the Appropriations Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly took a strong step toward growing and strengthening the wages of Connecticut's lowest-wage earners by voting to increase the state's minimum wage. In doing so, the committee also...Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Parties and Movements, Killingly, Career and Workplace
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Aetna Shareholders Vote Down Measures To Change Board Leadership, Further Disclose Political Spending
The Hartford CourantA few Aetna Inc. shareholders took the health insurer to task Friday morning during an annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., over the way it structures its board leadership, how it discloses political spending and the manner in which it ran the annual meeting....Tags: Elections, Aetna Inc., New York City, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, The Wall Street Journal
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Health Activist Report: Big Pharma CEO's Made $1.6 Billion
The CEOs at 11 large pharmaceutical companies have made a staggering $1.57 billion over the last decade as their companies have gouged the public, a policy group charges, in a release aimed at fomenting anger at the companies. Health Care for America...Tags: Politics, Chemical Industry, Companies and Corporations, Government Health Care, National Government
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Viacom's Sumner Redstone celebrates 90 with big bump in net worth
Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone celebrated his 90th birthday Monday. Friends, family and business associates had planned a surprise Memorial Day birthday party in Los Angeles for the media mogul, even though Redstone has never been a big fan of...
Tags: Memorial Day, Sumner Redstone, CBS Corp., Viacom Inc., Leslie Moonves
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Shareholders reject Middleby executive compensation plan
Tribune reporterOnly 49 percent of shareholders voted to approve the executive compensation at Elgin-based Middleby Corp. Commonly called "say on pay," those non-binding votes rarely go against publicly traded companies, and while shares of the commercial food-service...Tags: OraSure Technologies, Inc., Elections, Politics, Gentiva Health Services, Interior Policy
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Complaining CEOs need to take a hike
I took a walk early Wednesday morning. Azaleas and dogwoods were in bloom. Green-again trees and shrubs were damp, dripping from Tuesday's rain. A zillion birds were singing, and even the starlings sounded sweet. The Orioles had won another game. A...
Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Labor Markets, Government, Corporate Officers, Business Enterprises
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NU Chief Thomas May Leads First Shareholder Meeting After Merger
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD — In the ballroom of the Hartford Club, Northeast Utilities' Thomas J. May on Wednesday led his first shareholder meeting as chief executive since the company's merger with NStar last April. The company also reported that it earned $228.1...Tags: Elections, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Politics, Companies and Corporations
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings received $5.5 million in compensation in 2012
Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings received about $5.5 million in total compensation last year, a 40% drop from 2011, when his package was valued at $9.3 million. But Hastings' salary -- like the company's image -- is on the rebound. He is set to...Tags: Elections, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Shareholders, Economy, Business and Finance
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UnitedHealth Group CEO's Pay Down 28 Percent Last Year To $34.7 Million
The Hartford CourantUnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen J. Hemsley had a 28 percent decline in compensation last year compared with 2011, according to documents filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Hemsley's pay package was $34.7 million last year,...Tags: Stephen J. Hemsley, Corporate Officers
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Chicago's Exelon holds annual meeting in Baltimore
Exelon Corp. said Tuesday that its executive compensation package received an advisory OK from three-quarters of shareholder votes during the annual meeting, which the Chicago energy company held in Baltimore. About 20 shareholders attended the...
Tags: Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, The New York Times, Barack Obama, Exelon Corp.
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Price discusses ETFs and tax policy at annual meeting
After T. Rowe Price executives recapped last year's highlights at Tuesday's annual meeting, a shareholder raised concerns about the loss of a top money manager, competition from exchange-traded funds and an Obama Administration tax proposal that could...
Tags: Finance, Retirement, T. Rowe Price, Employees, Economy, Business and Finance
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CEO Pay For 2012 In State, Country Part Of Broken System
The Hartford CourantThe AFL-CIO launched its annual database of CEO pay Monday, showing the average 2012 pay of CEOs at companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was $12.3-million, or 354 times more than the average American worker earned. The average of those S&P 500...Tags: Zygo Corporation, Social Sciences, Aetna Inc., Praxair Incorporated, Middlefield
May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 27, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 8, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
May 1, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 15, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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