Disclose CEO pay in perspective of staff salaries: Govt to cos
Amid a growing perception about India Inc doling out huge pay packages to the top management, the government wants the companies to disclose the remuneration paid to promoters and CEOs in perspective of their median staff salary.
"Publicly, there is so much debate about the companies spending large amounts of money towards remuneration for their top management personnel.
"It may be their hard-earned money. But the perception about the rich and the poor divide is getting bigger and bigger. That perception correction has to take place,"
Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot told PTI in an interview here.
The Minister further said that there are multiple number of cases that he knew of "where perhaps people feel that the (general) employees are not getting enough money."
To correct this perception, Pilot said, the companies "must report salaries that promoters and chiefs get, plus the median salary of their employees" at the end of the year.
The regulations put a cap on remuneration of top management, as per which not more than five per cent of the net profit can be given to one single director of a company.
"While we have maintained this cap, changes are being made in the disclosures to be made at the end of the year," he added.
"The message that we want to give to the corporates is that please disclose the median salary of employees so that we get an idea about the framework of the payments that are being made by the companies," Pilot said.
Asked whether the Ministry would consider tougher measures
