Tag: Companies Act
Government backs payment in shares for non-executive directors
Treasury reforms are aimed at streamlining regulation in order to promote UK growth, and include changes to the Public Register.
Minister pours cold water on bid to reform directors’ duties
MP responds in Commons debate about changing section 172 of the Companies Act to include environment and employees.
Directors’ duties up for parliamentary debate
MP’s private member’s bill seeks to add duties to section 172 of the Companies Act in respect of the environment and employees.
Post Office board was ‘excessively passive’
In a report on the Horizon inquiry, the Institute of Directors calls on all boards to ‘up their game in terms of tech and IT literacy’.
We need UK business to be a force for good
Amending section 172 of the Companies Act would empower leaders to align the interests of profits and planet.
UK’s political candidates avoid governance pledges
The major parties have released their manifestos, but not necessarily their detailed plans for corporate governance.
Threat to stakeholder governance from Twitter sale ‘overstated’
Academics and experts argue stakeholder governance will always come second while the law puts the interests of shareholders first.