Well, besides 11 workers dying, and the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Transocean Ltd. is whooping it up in a "Mission Accomplished" kind of way. Bonues, raises, backslaps.
CNN) -- Declaring 2010 "the best year in safety performance in our company's history," Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, according to the SEC report. Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report states.
Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's "performance under safety," the Transocean filing states.
"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate," the SEC statement reads. "As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history."
If this is their "best year in safety performance in the Company's history," I probably don't want to know what a worst year scenario would be.
2 comments:
nobody in the families of the hotshots died, so it's not a big deal.
Oh- yea right-- that & all the endangered species they further endangered.
Not to mention the damage to the ocean itself.
Unbelievable.
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