Employee Ownership Blog

In a Forbes blog post, Mary Josephs reports the story of two twin sisters who both applied for jobs at employee-owned WinCo Foods in 1991 at th

The ESOP Association Canada is hosting its first conference June 3 to 5, 2015, in Winnipeg.

Today is the first day that the NCEO is operating from our new offices. All of our contact information remains the same, but we have now completed our very short move to downtown Oakland's historic and LEED-certified Uptown Arts Building, at 1629 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 200.

ESOPs can cause companies to lose their certifications as for small businesses or as women-, minority-, or veteran-owned businesses.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has liberalized rules for traded companies to acquire their own shares under employee stock ownership plans. Until now, companies could not make secondary market purchases to buy shares for employee ownership plans through trusts.

On October 23, the Internal Revenue Service issued an announcement with the 2015 dollar limitations for pe

The NCEO began accepting nominations and self-nominations for its board of directors today.

In one of the first stock-drop cases to be decided after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dudenhoeffer v. Fifth Third, a district court dismissed a stock-drop case against UBS. In In re UBS ERISA Litig., No. 1:08-cv-06696-RJS (S.D.N.Y. Sept.

On October 6, the Pennsylvania Senate approved a resolution supporting employee ownership, noting that ESOPs provide an "effective tool for companies going through ownership transition by preserving their companies and jobs through employee ownership rather than closing or selling them to out-of-

The NCEO will begin accepting nominations and self-nominations for its board of directors on November 3.

The NCEO is beginning a project about the interaction of employee ownership and certification as a minority-owned business, women-owned business, or veteran-owned business.

On October 14, the Australian government announced that it will develop new legislation to encourage employee stock plans that would come into effect in July 2015.