Employee Ownership Blog

As the European Union discusses its future approach to employee ownership, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) released a report to defend its position that incentives are good public policy.

The NCEO welcomes Tim Garbinsky, our newest staff member. Tim is our outreach coordinator, and he will be running our efforts to reach new businesses and other audiences through state-level centers for employee ownership, trade associations, and improved materials.

A new study of option granting practices for CEOs in public companies finds that companies tend to grant options based more on a fixed number of options than on the value of these awards.

On September 2, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the first federal law that provided specific federal tax treatment for employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

The largest worker cooperative in the United States is Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) of New York, employing 2,300 home health care workers.

On September 26, Salisbury University (Maryland) will offer a half-day course on shared entrepreneurship, cultures of innovation, and hands-on examples from the recently published book Shared Entrepr

ESOP companies generally have a hard time qualifying for various minority and other special set-aside programs if the plan owns more than 49% of the shares.

At its 2014 convention, the United Steelworkers union passed a resolution supporting union worker cooperatives and employee ownership more broadly, including explicit support for the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

The NCEO just released its annual review of litigation involving ESOPs and 401(k) plans with company stock, which found 21 lawsuits involving ESOPs decided in the most recent 12 months.

The NCEO's outreach coordinator will be involved in implementing and designing some of the NCEO's most interesting projects, all designed to provide high-quality information to audiences that are not aware of employee ownership or that have misconceptions.

The 22nd Annual Gathering of Games, a conference for companies and practitioners focused on open-book management, will take place September 3-5, 2014 in St. Louis, MO.