Annual general meetings : a guide for directors.

For chairs and other board members, this book offers guidance on good practice in preparing CEO and other executive employment agreements.

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Corporate Author: Australian Institute of Company Directors
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Australian Institute of Company Directors, 2009.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Good practice when appointing CEOs and other senior executives -- Introduction -- Good practice guidelines -- Australian guidance -- Planning stage -- Search process -- Negotiation phase -- Framework for dealing with executive remuneration issues -- Remuneration committee -- Interacting with external advisers -- Elements of remuneration contracts -- Sign-on fees -- Choice of performance measures -- Alignment with interests of shareholders over the long term 
505 8 |a Hedging arrangements -- Mechanisms to minimise unexpected results -- Notice periods and termination payments -- Summary -- Chapter Two: Pre-contract issues -- Introduction -- Role of recruitment consultants and pre-employment representations -- Position and reporting structure -- Remuneration -- The constitution -- The negotiation process -- Legal and financial advice and documentation -- Pre-employment checks and references -- Reference checks -- Privacy -- Anti-discrimination -- Summary -- Chapter Three: Remuneration and other benefits -- Introduction -- Legislative entitlements 
505 8 |a Executives compared to other employees -- Considerations in setting remuneration -- The 'Two Strikes' Rule -- Components of executive remuneration -- Salary -- Superannuation -- Incentive plans/rules -- Bonus -- Other incentives -- 'Handcuffs' and 'Handshakes' -- Review of remuneration and benefits -- Summary -- Chapter Four: Other usual terms of executive employment -- Introduction -- Sources of the terms of the contract of employment -- Minimum legislative entitlements -- Maximum weekly hours of work -- Request for flexible working arrangements -- Parental leave and related entitlements 
505 8 |a Annual leave -- Personal leave and compassionate leave -- Community service leave -- Long service leave -- Taking versus paying out leave -- Public holidays -- Notice of termination -- Redundancy -- Fair Work Information Statement -- Term -- Location -- Probation -- Company policies -- Dispute resolution -- Implied terms -- Implied duties of the employee -- Implied duties of the employer -- Mutual duties of both the employer and the employee -- The duty of mutual trust and confidence -- The duty to provide reasonable notice -- Summary -- Chapter Five: Protection of business interests 
505 8 |a Introduction -- Confidential information -- What is confidential information? -- Express contractual terms -- Equitable duty of confidence -- Breach of fiduciary duty -- Corporations legislation -- Intellectual Property -- Post-employment restrictions on conduct ('restraints of trade') -- General -- Are restraints enforceable? -- Drafting restraint clauses -- Remedies -- Summary -- Chapter Six: Cessation of executive employment -- Introduction -- Fixed term -- Maximum term -- Continuing term -- Minimum notice periods -- Executives -- Garden leave -- Summary of immediate termination for misconduct 
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