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Directors' remuneration - UK government consultation on binding shareholders votes

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 2 2012

On 14 March 2012 the government issued a consultation paper that changes the framework for directors' remuneration for UK-listed companies

Relationships between managing directors and listed companies

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Netherlands
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  • May 2 2012

On 31 May 2011, the Dutch parliament adopted the Management and Supervision Act

Marks and Spencer and contractors fined for asbestos breaches

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 28 2011

Marks and Spencer plc and three of its contractors have recently received heavy fines for putting members of the public, staff and contractors at risk when it removed asbestos-containing materials (ACMs

New bonus for French employees

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • France
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  • October 14 2011

A law dated 28 July 2011 creates a bonus for a trial two-year period (ie, until 2013

Compulsory gender quotas for listed companies

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • October 14 2011

Compulsory gender quotas for boards of directors of Belgian listed companies have been introduced following a new law in July 2011

Qualification of relationship of managing director of listed companies

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Netherlands
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  • July 1 2011

The legal relationship between a managing director and a listed company will no longer be considered to be an employment relationship once the Management and Supervision Sct (Wet bestuur en toezicht) enters into force

Whistleblowing

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 24 2011

This briefing summarises the key facts that employers in the UK need to know about whistleblowing and codes of conduct

Women on boards

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 20 2011

Quoted companies are coming under increasing pressure to address the issue of gender diversity in their boardrooms and in the senior management of their organisations

Company sentenced for corporate manslaughter

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 18 2011

Following an extensive investigation, Cotswold Geotech (Holdings) Limited was recently found guilty of corporate manslaughter, in the first case and conviction of its kind

Corporate governance in listed companies

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • July 6 2010

The newly adopted law on the reinforcement of corporate governance, which applies to listed companies and autonomous state enterprises, was published in the Belgian State Gazette of 26 April 2010