Banks’ logic make little sense

av | mar 26, 2013 | NFU News

NFU News 2013-03-26NFU News RESPONSIBILITY. Bank revenues are increasing across the Nordic area revealing substantial profits. Whilst this is naturally good, it is not unquestionable so. The big question is: who is benefitting from these profits? Whilst profits, for...

When did you last raise your hand?

av | mar 13, 2013 | NFU News

NFU News 2013-03-13NFU News PENSIONS. Current tendencies in our sectors point at short-term solutions aimed at pleasing investors by boosting the market value of the companies. In the end of the day, through our pension funds, insurance funds, the state pension funds...

“Bring sanity back to CEO pay”

av | mar 13, 2013 | NFU News

NFU News NFU News BONUS CAP. A referendum in Switzerland gave a resounding yes to a law that will cap bank CEO bonuses. Nearly 70 percent of Swiss voters said yes to the new law. Obviously the people have had enough of seeing how CEOs in banks get huge bonuses at the...

Employer side got it all wrong

av | mar 13, 2013 | NFU News

NFU News NFU News BONUS CAP. Employers in Denmark claim that a cap on CEOs bonuses is an attack on the Nordic collective bargaining model. The simple response to that is that you can’t compare apples with pears. To say that CEOs bonuses are part of the Nordic model is...