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A common assumption in the stock options debate is that expensing will drive down the prices of companies that provide options in a more than nominal way, and will be especially hard on companies with substantial options grants.

In an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), employers typically allow employees a discount of up to 15% of the purchase price of the shares.

1996 tax law changes are unlikely to create many new ESOPs in Subchapter S companies. That's the conclusion reached by Bob Stiles of Liberty Check Printers in Mounds View, MN, the first Subchapter S company to set up an ESOP after the new law was passed.

The financial reform legislation requires non-binding shareholder votes on executive pay; more stringent rules for the independence of compensation consultants; the expansion of existing stock exchange rules prohibiting brokers from voting uninstructed shares held in street names on some issues t

A new study of the Wall Street Journal 350 by William M. Mercer shows that 10.6% of these large companies have broad stock option plans to which they either have made allocations or will this year.

In a press release issued on April 30, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had reached an agreement with Wilmington Trust "to pay a combined $80 million to 21 employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for which it serv

ESOP companies shared their celebrations throughout Employee Ownership Month.

Winning Workplaces and the Wall Street Journal will hold their annual conference to honor the 15 top "winning workplaces" for 2008 in Chicago October 14-15. Last year, five of the winners were NCEO members, and employee ownership will again be on the agenda this year.

Over the last few years, one-third of the winners of the Winning Workplaces awards have gone to NCEO members and employee ownership companies (all the winning employee ownership companies have been members, it turns out). The process for self-nomination is open again.

Five of the ESOP companies that have been named as winners of the annual Winning Workplaces award talk about their cultures in a useful compilation of short videos [link no longer active].