Schiphol CEO will reward good to explain – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

Schiphol CEO Jos Nijhuis earned more than nine tons over 2014

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Schiphol CEO Jos Nijhuis find the salary he received in 2014 ‘not exorbitant compensation.”

responds to TVNZ CEO Jos Nijhuis to the outcry over the remuneration totaling € 900,000. According to the director that amount is justified because of the complexity and the commercial aspects of running Schiphol, such as the management of real estate and shopping.

The fuss focused mainly on the variable remuneration of almost € 370,000 received Nijhuis, approximately 95% of his fixed salary of € 389,000. According to new rules of the Ministry of Finance the bonus of directors of state-owned companies should not exceed 20% of the fixed salary. The state is 69% owner of the airport.

While Nijhuis says

social sentiment surrounding his reward understandable, he thinks not to return his bonus. He points out that his contract simply falls under the old remuneration policy. “There are clear agreements made,” says Nijhuis. “I would only surrender it if it would go bad with Schiphol. That is not the case, “

Dijsselbloem

Onder more Jeroen Dijsselbloem Minister of Finance is not happy with the variable salary of the Schiphol boss. “I think the relationship between fixed and variable not good,” Dijsselbloem responded last week. “Nijhuis is one of the last directors of state-owned companies which still has an old contract, which has not been adjusted. Almost all drivers have been reduced to the new standard of 20% maximum variable ‘said the minister.

The CEO of Schiphol says understand the minister does. “He has to answer, of course, in the political playing field. I understand that. He must respond to the social sentiment. That is his role, his responsibility. “