Overview: Labor advocates continue to develop new issue sets designed to drive their ongoing narrative around income inequality. The issue of executive compensation clearly fits in that category. In fact, the AFL-CIO has for many years issued an annual report on executive pay, comparing CEO compensation to that of frontline workers, in an effort to undergird its claims against “greedy” executives. With the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) now collecting and publishing that same data for public companies, the federal agency is, in effect, producing the same report the AFL-CIO has for many years.
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