Aside from executive compensation (with an emphasis on Covid-19-related pay/pay plan adjustments and associated disclosed rationales), Glass Lewis sees climate change, human capital management (numerous issues), and board and workforce diversity, as the primary trending topics this proxy season. The firm's newly released "2021 Proxy Season Preview" generally discusses these trends, as well as several types of filed or anticipated shareholder proposals, and recaps its voting guideline updates, which we initially reported on here.
See our prior reports here: "Glass Lewis Details How it Will Assess Board Diversity Disclosure" and "Glass Lewis Details How it Will Assess Board Diversity Disclosure" and "Glass Lewis Guidance Informs Proxy Pay Disclosure" and additional resources on our Proxy Advisors page.
This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!