Employee Ownership Blog

The Department of Labor (DOL) has obtained a consent order for fiduciaries to repay funds to an ESOP. The order requires fiduciaries of the Parrot Cellular ESOP to pay $4,181,818 to the plan.

Brigham Young University's Entrepreneurship Center and the Ballard Center are seeking companies to participate in a new research project on intrapreneurship.

We the Owners, a documentary about employee ownership in the United States, has been officially selected to screen at the California Independent Film Festival next week, marking the seventh film festival for which it is a selection.

Nominations for the 2014 election for the NCEO's board of directors open today, November 1, and will close on December 13, 2013.

The NCEO gathered executive compensation data for the 2012 fiscal year between July and September in 2013, receiving a total of 402 valid surveys from a diverse sample of ESOP companies.

Companies with stock plans other than ESOPs can fill out an online questionnaire designed to improve the administration of stock plans in general.

On September 13, the Financial Accounting Standards Board Emerging Issues Task Force 13-D recommended that equity awards that have a performance target that can be met after a service-based vesting requirement will be accounted for as a performance condition that affects also vesting.

The NCEO is creating a new directory of retired ESOP company executives who are willing to willing to share their experience and expertise, which may include working on a pro bono basis with ESOP companies considering or using an ESOP; participating in outreach programs to the press, trade associ

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In an article in CFO Magazine on potential compensation perils for startup companies, Christine Osvald-Mruz warns that many startup companies defer some or even all cash compensati

On September 18, the IRS announced modifications to its determination letter process.

In a survey of 350 multinational companies in a variety of countries (the 2012 Global Equity Incentives Survey), PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) have found that in ESPPs, there has been "a steady decline in global participation from 2007 thr