On November 24, 2013, Swiss voters soundly voted down (65.3% to 34.7%), a proposal to limit the pay of companies’ highest paid managers to 12x that of their lowest paid rank-and-file workers, known as the “1:12 Initiative”. The 1:12 Initiative was raised by Switzerland’s Young Socialists, who succeeded in collecting 100,000 signatures to put the 1:12 … Continue Reading
