Employee Ownership Blog

A record-setting 1,683 people attended the NCEO's 2016 Employee Ownership Conference in Minneapolis this week.

Uber and Lyft are the best known companies in the so-called "gig economy," in which work is done by independent contractors on a job-by-job basis and mediated by mobile technology.

A new analysis by Francesco Bova, a professor of finance at the University of Toronto and a Beyster Employee Ownership Fellow, provided the first specific data on how often large public companies with ESOPs saw their stock decline by over 50%.

David Ackerman of Morgan Lewis, who passed away this year, was one of the most respected NCEO authors and most loved advisors in the ESOP community. We have been touched by people's desire to remember him.

The highlights of the NCEO's ongoing and new projects is available in our 2015 annual report.

Thirty-seven of the 73 companies with stock on the Fortune 2016 Best Companies to Work For list have some kind of broad-based ownership plan (27 employers on the list are partnerships, nonprofits, or subsidiaries of foreign corporations). The percentage is consistent with prior years.

Canada's legislative framework for employee ownership is vastly different from the United States.

The NCEO welcomes four new directors to our board. Elizabeth Bauer, Barbara Clough, Amanda DeVito, and Veronica Ortiz all have terms that begin today. In addition, James Mauch and Neil Brozen are both returning for second terms. See the list of directors.

According to an article in the online magazine of the trucking industry, trucking companies are starting to turn to employee ownership as a way to tackle employee attrition,

Employee-owners visited the Colorado legislature on March 29 to advocate for legislation that would support employee ownership. They met with legislators and agency leaders.

In a detailed ruling, a district court ruled in Coburn v. Evercore Tr. Co., N.A, No. 1:15-cv-00049-RBW (D.D.C. Feb. 17, 2016), that an unsuccessful change in business strategy was not enough to meet the special circumstances standard outlined in the Fifth Third Bancorp v.

In an interview with Dan Kenary, the CEO of Harpoon Brewery, Forbes contributor Roberta Matuson asked why Kenary had adopted an ESOP. "I did this because I wanted our employees to fully participate in the value that we are creating," he said.