You read the headlines every week in U.S. newspapers and business magazines about out-of-control executive compensation, with nine-figure CEO salaries and excessive job perks that generate tons of negative publicity for the companies involved.
It’s not the headline-grabbing abuses, though, that cause the most trouble for many employers and HR directors. It’s the everyday questions about executive compensation – from finding benchmarks and setting comparable pay and benefits levels for your key employees to tracking and reporting the compensation properly and complying with the newest disclosure and transparency requirements. The bottom line is that executive compensation is complicated, and tricky to administer effectively.
You’ll learn how to anticipate, prevent, and resolve the most common executive compensation problems HR professionals face during our informative 90-minute audio conference recording. Our expert speaker – an experienced attorney and executive compensation specialist – will break down the basic types of executive pay and benefits and the latest strategies for setting, tracking, paying taxes on, and disclosing them to comply with the law.
You and your colleagues will learn:
- The primary federal laws and regulations governing executive compensation, including the most recent changes and updates you must know about
- Which types of executive compensation – base salary, short- and long-term incentives, benefits, and perquisites – are most requested by key employees (and which ones cause the most trouble for employers)
- Best practices for setting, tracking, and reporting executive compensation to comply with the law
- How to resolve the most common income and employment tax questions that arise with executive compensation
- What the new federal pay transparency standards require – and how you can gauge whether your organization is in compliance
- How to deal with executive compensation issues regarding your board of directors
This audio conference was recorded on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
About Your Speaker:
Robert J. Lowe, Esq., is a partner in the Los Angeles office of law firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP. He advises employers in all aspects of executive compensation, including equity incentive and nonqualified deferred compensation plans, executive compensation arrangements for employees of tax-exempt entities, and the negotiation and drafting of executive employment agreements. He also represents executives in the entertainment and professional sports industries, as well as other fields, with respect to negotiating and drafting their employment agreements. A frequent writer and speaker on executive compensation topics, Lowe earned his law degree at the
University of California at Berkeley.
Approved for Recertification Credit
This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI home page at www.hrci.org.
