Employee Ownership Blog

The government of the United Kingdom announced that 150,000 employees of the Royal Mail will receive free shares when the postal service's shares go public, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks.

The U.S. Department of Labor sued San Francisco—based California Pacific Bank, including its board of directors and plan trustees, saying the bank violated ERISA by failing to distribute account balances in cash following the 2010 termination of the ESOP.

The NCEO has released the 2013 Employee Ownership 100 list, naming the nation's largest companies that are at least 50% owned by an ESOP or other broad-based employee ownership plan.

Upstart and Pave, two new crowdfuding sites, are offering a new way for companies to raise equity. Instead of seeking investors to get a conventional share stake, the sites provide that investors will get a stated percentage of profits each month for some number of years.

Over 400 companies have responded to the NCEO's biannual survey on executive compensation practices in ESOP companies. The deadline to complete the survey is September 5 at 5 pm (Pacific).

The seventh annual Ownership Thinking Conference will be held October 17 and 18 in Englewood, CO. The NCEO sponsors this conference, which helps companies create systems that engage employees by driving accountability and purpose in their work.

Does your company have Web design expertise? Might you be interested donating some time to promote employee ownership around the world? From Australia and South Africa to the United Kingdom and the European Union, employee ownership is emerging as a rediscovered tool of national policy.

Publicly traded companies with significant 401(k) investments in employer stock performed worse relative to companies without company stock in their plans, according to a new study,

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The Beyster Institute will hold its annual course for strategic level management employees of ESOP companies on October 13-16 at the University of California, San Diego.

The NCEO will be reissuing a revised version of its popular issue brief on wellness and employee ownership programs. We are looking for good examples of wellness programs to profile.

The U.S. Department of Labor released data on retirement plans with 100 or more participants that shows ESOPs generally provided a greater aggregate rate of return than 401(k) plans.