The NCEO's first survey of its ESOP membership is underway (a survey on equity compensation and one for service providers will follow). Results will change as more companies complete the survey, but some preliminary highlights are emerging:
The Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA) will be holding its annual meeting and fall lobby day September 20-21 in Washington, D.C. ESCA and the NCEO have partnered on a number of projects.
We at the NCEO now estimate that between seven and ten million employees actually receive stock options in their companies, up from under one million in 1992. Precise estimates are not possible because companies do not have to report the distribution of options under their plans.
OAKLAND, Calif., April 1: The National Center for Employee Ownership, working in conjunction with a major medical imaging company, will soon announce a breakthrough technology to help companies better measure how varying approaches to executive compensation affect executive performance.
The NCEO now estimates that there were 8,926 companies with ESOPs and similar plans in the United States at the end of 2011, including 6,941 companies with ESOPs and 1,985 with plans that, while not ESOPs, share a number of similar features.
In an August 31 Forbes article, A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago, Anne Field reports that the Cook County Commission on Social Innovation is worki
The National Center for Employee Ownership has posted a response to the Department of Labor proposal to define ESOP appraisers as plan fiduciaries. The response can be found at this link.
