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Title: Bankrupt Solyndra seeking to pay bonuses [Court’s OK sought for ‘incentive plan’]
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URL Source: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2 ... ay-bonuses/?page=all#pagebreak
Published: Jan 12, 2012
Author: By Jim McElhatton
Post Date: 2012-01-12 12:05:45 by Capitalist Eric
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Views: 4740
Comments: 17
Now seems an unlikely time for handing out bonuses at bankrupt Solyndra LLC, but that’s the plan of company attorneys intending to dole out up to a half-million dollars to persuade key employees to stay put. Nearly two dozen Solyndra employees could receive bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 each under a proposal filed by Solyndra’s attorneys in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The attorneys say the extra money will add motivation at a time when workers at the solar company have little job security and more responsibilities because so many of their colleagues have been fired. The names of the bonus-eligible employees are not disclosed in the court filings that outline the bonus proposal. None of the employees is among the so-called corporate “insiders” — top officers or members of the board of directors, records show. The proposed bonus recipients include nine equipment engineers, six general business and finance employees and up to two information technology workers. The biggest bonus, for $50,000, would go to a Solyndra employee whose job title is listed as a senior director with a base salary of $206,499 per year. Two senior managers stand to receive bonuses of $30,000 and $32,500. Bankruptcy attorneys said the so-called “key employee incentive plan” aims to keep important personnel from leaving the company. Solyndra went broke just two years after winning a more than $500,000,000 federal loan-guarantee package, and one year after President Obama toured its California headquarters and hailed its prospects. Most of Solyndra’s employees were laid off last year. The company employed about 1,100 people last year. Just 84 remain. Of those who managed to avoid the mass firings, many have been scrambling to find jobs. “Within the last few months, the debtors have experienced a serious loss of personnel, which has made the continuation of the sales process in an orderly fashion more difficult,” Solyndra bankruptcy attorneys disclosed in a recent filing. “The further loss of experienced personnel may seriously jeopardize the ongoing sales efforts and, should it continue, require the engagement of experienced consultants at a much higher cost than maintaining the existing personnel.” The attorneys argued that the extra bonus money — ranging from 8 percent to 30 percent of the employees’ total base annual salaries — “will motivate the eligible employees to work as hard as possible” to achieve a Chapter 11 restructuring plan and sale. The workers, often carrying a heavier load because of the layoffs, “are well aware that the clock is ticking on their employment,” the attorneys added. Three of the employees earn less than $100,000 in base salary, and eight make $150,000 or more. The highest paid employee, eligible for the $50,000 bonus, is paid $206,499 per year. David Epstein, a visiting scholar at the American Bankruptcy Institute, said the proposal, like any other incentive plan, needs to be approved by a bankruptcy judge. He said it’s not uncommon in corporate-restructuring cases to have companies try to find extra money for key employees. “You’re always going to have people you’ve got to keep and who would be hard to replace even in good times,” he said. “But they become irreplaceable because of the bankruptcy. “If you have someone good, she’s going to have lots of opportunities, and see the ship is sinking, and understand that this is a less than ideal job market and be ready to take a job when it’s offered,” he said. “In theory, [the incentive plan] makes sense,” he said, acknowledging that “abuses and mistakes” can happen. Meanwhile, most other former employees, including several top former officials, have claims pending in the company’s bankruptcy case. James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor who served on Solyndra’s board of directors, filed a claim for more than $140,000 last month in the bankruptcy, records show. He did not return phone and email messages this week. Another claim in the case, for $456,000, appears tied to a severance deal for the company’s founder and former chief executive, Chris Gronet. He left the company weeks before its collapse last summer, avoiding the public interrogations that befell two other top company executives who invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify at a televised congressional hearing. Bankruptcy filings show a severance deal arranged for Mr. Gronet, also for $456,000, though he never received the money. Phone messages left at a number under Mr. Gronet’s name were not returned. Bankruptcy records show that some Solyndra executives received bonuses of more than $40,000 in the months before the company’s collapse. The San Jose Mercury News, which reported on the executive bonuses in November, quoted a former employee as saying that retention bonuses were paid to executives because of high turnover. In some cases, bankruptcy law allows a trustee or debtor to recoup payments to “insiders” of a company, such as top executives and directors and their family members. The payments had to have been made at a time when the company was insolvent.
Poster Comment: The overt arrogance and dull stupidity of these left-wing loons NEVER fails to amaze me...
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
Retention bonuses during bankruptcy are a norm. If you are trying to save the company then you want to keep your best people and you want to keep them happy. Had you any real life experience then you'd know this. You don't SO you don't.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Hilarious how "small government" types have turned the 5th amendment's existence as some sort of nefarious scheme to allow criminals to escape. Meanwhile, the Framers thought it important enough to enumerate.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Wow. Is there ANY corruption that you WON'T defend?
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
Stating a fact is not defending the practice, erica. Though I am hardly surprised such a nuance escapes you.
I haven't defended any corruption. Whex Texaco went bankrupt after the Valdez, did you believe that Texaco's petro- chemical workers were at fault? I menionted before that you had a two cent mind in a hundred dollar world. I believe that I may have overestimated you by 100%.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Asperger's rarely notice nuance.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
You've no basis of judging facts, rat-boy... Unless those facts revolve around whether a toilet is clean or not.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
It's not the workers that are demanding bonuses, but execs within the company... people that ran the business into the ground, and wasted MILLIONS of dollars. You comparison is bullshit. As usual. Ahh, resorting to the Rules of Disinformation again, eh? Oh, how unusual. ((((rolling eyes)))) LOL. "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
The fact that you have a one cent brain is FACTUAL information.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
I used to deliver newspapers as a boy as well as having done custodial work erica, does this mean I am still a purveyor of a nasty liberal media rag too? Though a shit mouth like you is always going to be fascinated by the porcelain Mom that begot you one fine day when you evolved from a turd and climbed on out to begin your life as a clueless wonder.
The boy definitely ain't right in the head, whatever it is that ails him.
Okay...have it your way. Were petro-chemical managers fired when the Exxon Valdez ran aground? Were ALL oil tanker captains? You have nothing to support your notion that it was these people who were responsible for the failed business model. IN point of fact, those who were have resigned.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
In reality, I'm quite happy, these days... because I've accepted the fact that you fucking socialist parasites are my ENEMY. You parasites need to learn to NOT be parasites, or you need to fucking DIE. I would prefer the latter. FUCK you very much. And I really mean that.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
You parasites need to learn to NOT be parasites, or you need to fucking DIE. I would prefer the latter. FUCK you very much. And I really mean that. You have an odd way of showing your happiness. It's no wonder that the Russians don't want you either.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
Be careful what you wish for.
You are always welcome to come to Eugene and tell me that to my face. Chickenshit. ;-D You are a blustering coward erica. I know it, the world knows it. Sorry about your luck.
Chickenshit. ;-D Going to Eugene, to confront a janitor, is not a particularly meaningful way of using my funds and time. I mean, really, who are you, anyway? A nobody, and a parasite. You're a janitor BS'ing, trying to come off as some sort of intellectual, when the reality is that you're a toilet-washer, plain and simple.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
The overt arrogance and dull stupidity of these left-wing loons NEVER fails to amaze me...
#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
(Edited)
Chris Gronet. He left the company weeks before its collapse last summer, avoiding the public interrogations that befell two other top company executives who invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify at a televised congressional hearing.
#3. To: war (#1)
Retention bonuses during bankruptcy are a norm.
#4. To: Capitalist Eric (#3)
"Is there ANY corruption that you WON'T defend?"
#5. To: Capitalist Eric (#3)
(Edited)
Is there ANY corruption that you WON'T defend?
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
Stating a fact is not defending the practice, erica. Though I am hardly surprised such a nuance escapes you.
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
Stating a fact is not defending the practice, erica.
#8. To: war (#5)
Whex Texaco went bankrupt after the Valdez, did you believe that Texaco's petro- chemical workers were at fault?
I menionted before that you had a two cent mind in a hundred dollar world. I believe that I may have overestimated you by 100%.
#9. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
Ahh, resorting to the Rules of Disinformation again, eh? Oh, how unusual. ((((rolling eyes))))
#10. To: Capitalist Eric (#7)
(Edited)
#11. To: mininggold (#6)
#12. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
(Edited)
It's not the workers that are demanding bonuses, but execs within the company...
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#11)
(Edited)
The boy definitely ain't right in the head, whatever it is that ails him.
#14. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
In reality, I'm quite happy, these days... because I've accepted the fact that you fucking socialist parasites are my ENEMY.
#15. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
#16. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
You are always welcome to come to Eugene and tell me that to my face.
You are a blustering coward erica. I know it, the world knows it. Sorry about your luck.
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