The Australian government has withdrawn a proposal to tax equity awards at the time of grant for higher income taxpayers (those who make more than $60,000 Australian, which is about U.S. $47,000).
Until recently, continental European governments, business, and labor unions have had only minimal interest in employee ownership, but that appears to be changing.
Thanks to the good efforts of NCEO board member Dan Walter of Performensation Consulting, there is now a lively and fast-growing employee ownership network on LinkedIn, the NCEO Employee Stock Ownership Network.
At the NCEO/Beyster Institute's recent annual conference in Portland, Southwest President Emeritus Colleen Barrett told the attendees that airline executives can be reluctant to say what they do at a social gathering for fear of the stories people will want to tell about their terrible experience
The stock options backdating scandal may seem like a long-forgotten, if sordid, chapter in executive pay, even if some prominent commentators argued the whole thing was silly and should just be ignored.
The NCEO is cosponsoring Ownership Thinking's third annual conference, "Initiating, Improving, and Sustaining Ownership Thinking," on September 17-18, in the Denver area.
As part of their efforts to recover, General Motors and Chrysler both are pursuing agreements with the UAW to provide the union with company stock to help fund retiree health-care trusts.
At the NCEO's recent annual conference, Southwest Airlines President Emeritus Colleen Barrett said that people are always lining up to her to tell her their favorite Southwest stories, usually about how employees went out of their way to help customers, make people laugh, or otherwise go well bey
When stock prices fall significantly, employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs) can run into difficult, if avoidable, problems. Most plans allow employees to buy stock at a discount from the lower of the share price at the beginning or end of the offering period.
The Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism (www.democratic-capitalism.com) is sponsoring an essay contest for students (middle school through college, or in adult education or online education programs) on "democratic capitalism." The Center was
Results are now in from the NCEO's survey of executive compensation in ESOP companies, the only such survey available. We had a very strong response, with 317 companies providing detailed answers.
