The United Kingdom's new Minister for Employment Relations, Jo Swinson, released a blueprint on Tuesday to encourage employee ownership of companies, saying "We will address one of the biggest barriers to take-up of employee ownership schemes: awareness that it exists" and described the goal as c
Jo Swinson, a Liberal Democrat member of parliament, has replaced Norman Lamb as the minister of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the agency that oversees employee ownership.
The Chancellor of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, announced in early December that the government would increase the allocation of funding to support emplo
The UK Labour Party's shadow chancellor John McDonnell unveiled a plan to dramatically increase employee ownership in the United Kingdom by setting up "ownership f
The Conservative Cameron government in the United Kingdom has created a series of new incentives for broad-based employee ownership, including incentives for companies and business owners to use an ESOP-like mechanism to transfer ownership to employees in closely held companies.
Following an extensive data-collection process, the UK's Employee Ownership Association released a report titled The Ownership Dividend, which found that employee ownership benefits employees, individual businesses, and the economy as
The new Cameron government has followed up on its pledge to privatize public services through what the British call "mutuals" (we would call them cooperatives). The first wave of 12 so-called "Pathfinder Mutuals" will act as a pilot for an envisioned much larger program.
