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Suzanne Cromlish, a Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve, has been working with the NCEO on groundbreaking research on ESOP company acquisitions of other companies. The first phase of this showed impressively positive results.

The NCEO's board election is underway. Over 300 votes have been cast, and members have until January 31. An email with instructions and a link to the ballot was sent on January 4, or you can call us if you would like to vote.

The well-known tile and homeware company Heath Ceramics announced that it was establishing an employee ownership plan.

ESOPs can cause companies to lose their certifications as for small businesses or as women-, minority-, or veteran-owned businesses.

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Income inequality has become a hot topic of late. But notably absent from the debate is any discussion of employee ownership as a bipartisan, capitalist approach to the problem.

When I first read about ESOPs 43 years ago as a Capitol Hill staffer, I loved the concept but was discouraged by the complexity. Employee ownership was a cause I wanted to make my own, but I was intimidated by the concept and strange (to me) language.

Employee-owned Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), a national model for home health care in the Bronx, New York, and an NCEO 2009 Innovations Awards winner, has generously volunteered to share its model for helping low-income employees achieve greater financial stability.

A survey of 202 large US companies by HR consulting firm Hewitt Associates has found that 34% plan to decrease the proportion of employee compensation represented by options and other company stock, while 52% plan to keep the level the same, and 14% plan to increase it.

A delegation of Chinese officials, including the director of the State Commission on Economic Restructuring and several directors of its provincial counterparts, recently completed a three-week tour of the U.S. that included several visits with employee ownership experts and companies.