{"id":3940,"date":"2024-06-01T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/elon-musk-tesla-shareholders-urged-to-stop-chief-executives-excessive-56bn-payday\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:37:45","slug":"elon-musk-tesla-shareholders-urged-to-stop-chief-executives-excessive-56bn-payday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/elon-musk-tesla-shareholders-urged-to-stop-chief-executives-excessive-56bn-payday\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Tesla shareholders urged to stop chief executive\u2019s \u2018excessive\u2019 \u00a356bn payday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla shareholders have been urged to vote against plans to pay its chief executive Elon Musk up to $56bn (\u00a344bn).<\/p>\n

The compensation package, if approved, would be the biggest ever for a chief executive in the US.<\/p>\n

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However, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has warned the amount is “excessive” and said it would not help Musk<\/strong> to “focus” more on the company.<\/p>\n

It comes following concerns that the controversial billionaire has become distracted from running Tesla by his other business interests, including SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

The electric carmaker has also been hit recently by falling revenue<\/strong>, product recalls<\/strong> and job cuts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Shareholders will vote on whether to approve Musk’s payout at Tesla’s annual general meeting on 13 June.<\/p>\n

They will also decide whether to reincorporate the company in Texas after a judge in Delaware, where Tesla is officially based, blocked a previous attempt to pay Musk the multi-billion figure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Other advisory proxies have also recommended that shareholders block the pay amount in the vote, which is being seen by some commentators as a referendum on Musk’s leadership of the firm.<\/p>\n

The compensation package sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $650bn (\u00a3510bn) over the 10 years from 2018. The company is currently valued at nearly $570bn (\u00a3445bn).<\/p>\n

ISS said in a report that, although the compensation package arguably reflected “the company’s significant financial growth,” it also “remains excessive, even given the company’s success”.<\/p>\n

The advisers said the amount “failed to achieve the board’s other original objectives of focusing CEO Musk on the interests of Tesla<\/strong> shareholders, as opposed to other business endeavours, and aligning his financial interests more closely with those of Tesla stockholders”.<\/p>\n

ISS said there were also other concerns including “a lack of clarity on the board’s plan” for Musk’s future pay.<\/p>\n

Tesla has defended the plans and said Musk had generated wealth for stockholders because he has “skin in the game”.<\/p>\n

In comments earlier this week, responding to similar criticism, the company said Musk had helped it achieve “performance targets that were regarded by many as extremely difficult or impossible”.<\/p>\n

It added: “Stockholders should care enormously about value creation…. and not about whether Elon’s perceived ‘focus’ was strong enough.”<\/p>\n

It comes after the company’s quarterly revenue dropped in April for the first time in almost four years.<\/p>\n

Competition from China and slowing demand for electric vehicles <\/strong>have been blamed for the recent downturn in the firm’s fortunes, along with controversies surrounding Musk.<\/p>\n

It came as Tesla announced on Friday a recall of more than 125,000 of its vehicles in the US to fix problems with seat belt warning systems.<\/p>\n

US officials said the alerts – which are supposed to inform and remind drivers if a seat belt is not fastened – were not going off as expected and did not comply with safety regulations, raising the risk of people getting injured during a crash.<\/p>\n

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the recall included certain 2012-2024 Model S, 2015-2024 Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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