By Porter Wright on A non-competition agreement raises state-law public policy concerns. As a result, states often restrict the scope of non-competition agreements before they will enforce them. The protectable interests that states will recognize, the rules of construction that states will apply and the required elements of a non-competition agreement will vary from state to state. You may … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on On Wednesday, by a 3-2 vote, the SEC approved proposal of the long-anticipated CEO pay ratio disclosure rule (read the press release). The proposed rule, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, would require a public company to disclose the ratio of compensation between its CEO and the median compensation of all its other employees. The … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Though most reporting companies conducted their first say-on-pay vote in 2011 and disclosed the shareholder voting results on Form 8-K, some companies overlooked the additional requirement to disclose the board of directors’ decision (in light of the shareholders’ advisory vote) regarding the frequency that the company will conduct say-on-pay votes. A company’s failure to file … Continue Reading
