The web site provides data on which funds invest in companies with excessive compensation packages. Rally Co-Workers and the Community. Contact IRS to tighten rules that limit corporate deductions for executive compensation. IRS defines both requirements loosely under current rules Contact the SEC to require fuller disclosure of executive compensation packages. The PayWatch web site has also injected some fun into the campaign.
Players lose points when shareholders revolt and file resolutions or lawsuits.
PayWatch also allows visitors to the site to compare their pay to their own CEO's pay. The visitor can find out how many years it would take them to earn what their CEO earns. Now that the rule that stock markets go down as well as up has been restored, and with the economic euphoria of the last few years wearing off, it is an opportune moment for sanity to be returned to corporate board rooms on executive compensation. The AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch web site is a first class tool with which mobilize public opinion against the corporate excesses.