Employee Ownership Blog

On October 22, the PBS NewsHour's weekly economics segment (7 min., 42 sec.) focused on employee ownership, using the sale of New Belgium Brewing to its employees as an ex

Annual elections for the board of directors of the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) will take place in January, and members in good standing are invited to nominate themselves or other members during the nomination window, from November 4 until December 18.

The Rocky Mountain Center for Employee Ownership has launched a job search for an executive director. The application deadline is November 15, and the target start date is January 1.

Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote to Apple employees about a new plan, which he called a "stock ownership program," to more broadly provide restricted stock units (RSUs).

On September 18, the IRS issued private letter ruling 201538021, which allows limited liability companies to adopt an ESOP under certain circumstances.

On November 4, the NCEO will begin accepting nominations to serve on its board of directors for the term that begins April 1, 2016. (We will post nomination instructions at that time.) All members in good standard are eligible, and the election will be held in January.

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The NCEO's first-ever survey asking companies about their ESOP transactions is now closed. We will be releasing data from the survey over the upcoming months, but initial results show that the vast majority (93%) of respondents are either satisfied or very satisfied with their transactions.

In the Atlantic, Derek Thomas argues that the idea of employment may become a historic relic.

One effect of the dramatic decline in the stock of China's publicly traded companies has been to cause substantial losses for employees who participated in stock purchase programs.

The Indian Finance Ministry proposed that state-owned enterprises be required to provide all performance-related pay to executives in the form of stock options, known in India as employee stock option plans (ESOPs); as with China, the acronym refers to something quite different from a US ESOP.