Employee Ownership Blog

ComputerWorld asked 38,000 employees in the information technology field what they believe is the best benefit of working for their company. The employees all worked for the 100 companies ranked the best places to work for information technology workers.

On May 19, the IRS published new regulations (26 CFR Part 1, TD 9484) on required diversification of employer stock in 401(k) plans and combined ESOP/401(k) plans (KSOPs).

We have just completed a comprehensive review of ESOP and 401(k) plan litigation over the last 20 years and published it as ESOP and 401(k) Plan Employer Stock Litigation Review 1990-2010.

The second-largest employee-owned company in the world is China's Huawei, a global provider of telecommunications networks.

Four of the 20 winners in the 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces competition, sponsored by Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit organization, and Inc. magazine, are employee-owned. They are:

That is about as much time as you could buy with an employee ownership lawyer at the cost of a $90 NCEO introductory membership.

We have released the 2010 version of our Employee Ownership 100, a list of the 100 largest employee-owned companies in the U.S. (ranked by the number of employees).

A new study of worker cooperatives in France has found that these companies are as productive as or possibly more productive overall than conventional firms in most industries. The study also shows that in several industries, the cooperatives use their capital inputs more efficiently.

The Conservative-Liberal coalition in Britain has published its agenda in a document tiled "Our Programme for Government." The document contains two references to employee ownership:

The eighth annual Vermont Employee Ownership conference will be held June 9 at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. The conference features 19 panels on ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and ownership culture. Registration is $150.

The IRS is going to require ESOP companies to submit written distribution policies, whether in their plans or as separate documents, according to ESOP attorney Larry Goldberg.

Reps. Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) have introduced the "Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2010" (H.R. 5207) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would: