Before bankruptcy filing, Hertz paid execs $16m in bonuses

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen many airlines file for bankruptcy protection. Customer demand remains low and it triggered a massive slowdown for business. Just this week, we saw LATAM US announce that they’re filing for Chapter 11. As many businesses face bankruptcy fears, one particular story is gaining traction. Apparently, before Hertz filed for bankruptcy, it paid millions in bonuses to its top executives.

Hertz Bankruptcy Filing

As per this CNN Business report, Hertz paid out the bonuses just before filing for bankruptcy and after announcing the layoffs of thousands of its employees.

Hertz (HTZ) paid a total of $16.2 million to 340 executives on May 19 as part of a plan to keep them in place while the company attempts to reorganize, the company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The executives will be required to return the money should they leave Hertz on their own before March 31, 2021.

The report details payments to some of Hertz’s top executives.
Paul Stone, who was just promoted to CEO three days before the retention bonuses were awarded, got $700,000 under the plan. Chief Financial Officer Jamere Jackson got $600,000, while Chief Marketing Officer Jodi Allen got about $190,000.
Companies often pay their key executives lucrative retention bonuses so that they don’t leave the company. However, these bonuses have a very different backdrop:
  • Hertz has let go almost 50% of their staff, around 14,300 workers since April 14
  • The company recently announced that it plans to close even more locations. These closures are bound to trigger more job losses
  •  Hertz owes $11 million in termination pay to 2,500 of its employees

 

News report courtesy CNN Business, video report courtesy CNBC

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  1. Talent costs money

    They only paid $600,000 to lock in a CEO for a year?
    That’s *really* good value for a business the size of Hertz.


    It’s funny to hear people say ‘we need a minimum wage’ (which reduces the number of jobs available)
    And, then these same people are upset that other employees who worked their way up make good money.

    That’s hypocrisy in plain view folks.


    Do you think a branch manager making $60,000 a year should run the all of Hertz?
    Do you want to do it for free?

    Or do we want a skilled person to try to save tens of thousands of jobs?
    Do you want to pay for quality so the business can do better in the future?


    $16M to try to rescue a gigantic company like Hertz… is a pretty good return on investment if it works.
    But, everyone now can fake their outrage and say ‘Omgzzzzz, $16,000,000.00…. gawddd I’m offended!!’

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