Employee Ownership Blog

In the last email bulletin we reported on the oral arguments in the Dudenhoeffer v. Fifth Third Bank case, during which the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the ESOP presumption of prudence.

On April 2, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, U.S., No. 12-751, concerning the so-called Moench presumption, which has been adopted by several circuit courts and is often used as a basis to dismiss stock-drop suits.

A study that the NCEO has referred to for years has been formally published in a volume of research papers titled Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Manage

The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership released data showing the increase in employment at employee-owned companies in Europe.

After the Bauen Hotel closed its doors in 2001, a group of workers occupied the hotel, invested in repairs, and re-opened the hotel, running it as a worker cooperative and becoming a leading example of Argentinian worker-recuperated enterprises.

Our annual conference in Atlanta last week had 1,200 attendees, making it the largest conference we have ever hosted.

An April 13 article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette focused on ESOPs and baby boomers.

Connecticut State Senator Donald Williams—the president pro tempore of the Connecticut senate—and Senator Martin Looney, both Democrats, introduced Committee Bill No.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced an update of a policy launched one year ago intended to reduce high-risk loans for corporate acquisitions.

The latest book by keynote speaker at the NCEO's annual conference, Dean Schroeder, was released yesterday by ESOP-owned Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

The Global Equity Organization (GEO) will host its 15th annual conference in Miami on May 7 to 9.

On April 6 at 5PM (Pacific), Seattle's television station KCTS-9 will begin a national run of the film Shift Change, which documents the development of worker cooperatives in the United States, as well as their connections with the inspiring network of worker cooperatives in Mondragon, Spa