On December 11, the Cuban government announced new rules for cooperatives designed to increase the number of worker-owned businesses in a move expected to be part of a shift toward free markets.
The Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania will again host "the first and only program anywhere formally addressing the relationship between the distinctive nature of ESOP companies and the effectiveness of leaders." The program consists of two week-long sessions, on
The Foundation for Enterprise Development, the Employee Ownership Foundation, and Equity Administration, Inc., announced a new award program for promising research by an emerging scholar that would "identify innovative research in management or management-related disciplines that considers high-i
Data from the authoritative Employee Benefit Research indicates that only 48.8% of all private sector workers aged 21-64 worked for a company that sponsored a retirement plan, and just 39.6% participated in the plan. The rates vary considerably by age, income, and the size of the employer.
The House Republicans' recent budget proposal for the fiscal cliff negotiations recommends using some of the ideas Erskine Bowles of the Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended to the Republicans in 2011.
The Beyster Institute at the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Business will host the first certificate-granting course for inside ESOP fiduciaries.
In the 113th Congress, long-time ESOP supporters such as John Boehner (R-OH), Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) retain their leadership roles, and several pro-ESOP legislators are taking new roles.
