Employee Ownership Blog

The Main Street Employee Ownership Act (S. 2786) has been included in the Senate's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), widely seen as a must-pass bill.

Shawn Moody, who founded Moody's Collision Centers and then sold it to its 200 employees through an ESOP, decisively won the Republican nomination for governor of Maine in the state's June 12 primary.

Representatives from the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership will testify before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Finance Committee on House Bill 1289 on June 19.

In an ongoing series of articles on the quality of work, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published an article on employee ownership on May 23.

A bill in Rhode Island would require that employees be notified about their right to make a bid to purchase the business in the event of a mass layoff or closure. The Local Ownership Opportunity Act (H.7799 and S. 2871) would require a poll of employees to measure interest in a worker buyout.

The Certified Equity Professional Institute (CEPI) at Santa Clara University announced that it has hired its new executive director. Alex Florea's first day was yesterday, June 14. Alex has over 20 years of experience with business services, accounting, and equity compensation specifically.

Oliver's Market became employee-owned in 2017, shortly before the devastating wildfires in its home territory north of San Francisco.

Kenya Airlines will issue shares worth $14 million USD (1.4 billion Kenyan Shillings) to its workforce.

The founder of Gripple, one of the best-known employee owned companies in the United Kingdom, was awarded the "Order of the British Empire" (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth.

Forty-two percent of the companies in Inc. Magazine's Best Places to Work list offer some form of employee ownership.

The 2018 Equity Compensation Survey from Charles Schwab shows that 27% of 1,000 survey participants said that equity was "one of the main reasons" they took their current jobs, and 9

It might seem that convenience store chains are not the most likely business to find a high concentration of ESOPs. With their high turnover and dispersed locations, ESOPs might seem a challenge.