September 1, 2010
Shedding jobs and boosting executive pay to the top. and we looked at, as you say, the top 50 companies, the top 50 layoff leaders. their pay is 42% higher than their overpaid peers on the standard and poors. some of those layoff leaders, you know, if you look at fred hassen, paid $50 million, laid off 16,000 workers at the drug company. william welding, johnson&johnson, 9,000 workers, $26 million pay package. mark herd over at hewlett packard, laid off 6,400 workers. >> and this was after getti...