Employee Ownership Blog

We are currently collecting responses for the 2018 ESOP Executive Compensation Survey. The survey is open to all companies with an ESOP.

ESOP-owned Torch Technologies released a video showing some employee-owners talking about what ownership means to them.

The NCEO will launch its new website in the near future. Stay tuned to www.nceo.org to see the new site, which we have rebuilt from scratch.

Under current regulations, companies traded over the counter are considered closely held for ESOP purposes. That means they have to comply with valuation and diversification requirements not applicable to public companies.

186 ESOP companies that are members of the ESOP Association responded to a questionnaire in September 2018 about key measures of their performance.

In October, Amazon announced that, effective November 1, it would increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour, covering 250,000 people, or 40% of its current staff.

The Main Street Employee Ownership Act, signed into law on August 13, was drafted to encourage loans to facilitate ESOP and worker cooperative transactions.

Let us know what you're up to on social media and participate in our #PictureOwnership photo contest.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have issued joint rules (38 CFR Part 78 and 13 CFR Part 125) that eliminate inconsistencies between the two agenci

The Beyster Institute at UC San Diego will host its certificate program for non-professional ESOP fiduciaries on November 26 to 28 in La Jolla, California.

In a September 17 report, The Gap Table: Analyzing the gender gap in equity, Carta (formerly eShares) and a collection of angel investors examined the "capitalization tables," which list the owners of companies and how much they own,

The law firm Baker & McKenzie released the updated version of its Global Equity Matrix.