Employee Ownership Blog

The Beyster Institute at UC San Diego's Rady School of Business will again host its program for owners, executives, and managers in employee-owned companies. The course covers legal and regulatory issues, corporate governance, marketing, financial management, and ownership culture.

Oxford will host an innovative four-day program on employee stock ownership plans, covering topics from fiduciary issues to sustainability.

On July 14, Employee Ownership Australia and New Zealand issued a report titled Employee Share Schemes - Their Importance to the Economy (PDF), which estimates the

The deputy speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, Upendra Chivukula (D), and Assemblywoman Holly Schepisis (R) have introduced Assembly Bill 2911, which would create a state income tax exclu

Wynn Resorts, owner of Wynn Macau Casino, is giving each of its 7,500 employees 1,000 shares of company stock, according to a

The Supreme Court's June 25 ruling in Fifth Third v. Dudenhoeffer ended the presumption of prudence for fiduciaries of ESOPs, but its decisions to remand three related cases shows that its decision will have both pros and cons for ESOPs.

The 2014 Meridian Compensation Partners Trends and Developments in Executive Compensation (PDF) finds that 20% of a sample of 123 large companies provid

On June 19, New York City Council and Mayor Bill De Blasio approved a budget item that will provide $1.2 million to support training, with the goal of incubating 28 new worker cooperatives and supporting 20 existing cooperatives. The city expects the result to be 234 new jobs.

A 2014 report by Fidelity Investments finds that 40% of polled employees say that a company stock plan is a "must-have" when considering a new job.

At a recent ESOP Centre conference on employee ownership Tiziano Treu, a former Italian Employment Minister, said the center-right government of Matteo Renzi is looking for ways to stimulate more broad-based employee ownership in Italy.

One of the most inspiring and thought-provoking stories in employee ownership that of SAIC, one of the largest and most innovative employee-owned companies in the United States, and the Foundation for Enterprise Development has just released the second edition of the definitive book on SAIC, writ

On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer that there is no presumption of prudence to protect fiduciaries of plans designed to invest in company stock, and specifically employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).