Help despite profit? Company faces ban on bonuses & dividends

Dusseldorf, Berlin Companies that take advantage of the proposed gas price help may have to forego paying dividends and paying employee bonuses. Politicians and economists are in favor of such a ban. The budget working groups of all three traffic light parties have submitted a corresponding application. The federal government would have to set this in motion.

The decision of the working groups, which is available to the Handelsblatt, states: It must be legally ensured that companies “are not allowed to issue dividends, bonuses, special payments in the form of share packages or other separate remuneration” as long as they make use of the gas price support. The ban should apply without exception: “Individual regulations are to be expressly refrained from,” it continues.