Firm ought to confirm Conn will not receive ‘golden hello’ for forgoing BP share benefits
Normal form is to wait until you’ve got your job offer 100% tied up before you tell your current employer you’re quitting.
But in the case of BP’s downstream supremo Iain Conn, he has chosen to resign even though for official consumption he is not yet the next chief executive of Centrica. Unofficially, of course, Conn is 99% certain to succeed Sam Laidlaw.