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Taking one for the team: Which top businesspeople took a paycut?

Andy Fyers
Wed, 30 Dec 2020

This article has been republished. It was first published in October 2020.The New Zealand Shareholders’ Association chief executive Michael Midgley said some top executives and directors should be taking more of a financial hit to their own pockets as their companies struggle due to the covid-19 downturn. Midgley’s comments come in response to a BusinessDesk investigation which found 22 publicly listed companies with directors and/or executives took a cut to their remuneration in response to the pandemic. The size of the c...

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