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Currently, under Rule 701 of the Securities Act, companies can offer employees stock to purchase as part of compensatory benefit plans for up to $5 million or 15% of the total stock, whichever is less, during a 12-month period.

On July 28, the House passed a pension reform bill approved by a House-Senate conference committee. If the bill is passed by the Senate, employee ownership plans will be affected in a number of ways, as outlined below.

The House Republicans' recent budget proposal for the fiscal cliff negotiations recommends using some of the ideas Erskine Bowles of the Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended to the Republicans in 2011.

The Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved by voice vote HR 3462, the "Wealth Through the Workplace Act." The bill, introduced by John Boehner (R-OH) with bipartisan support, would create a new type of stock option that would combin

On July 20, 2004, the House passed H.R. 3574, "The Stock Options Accounting Reform Act," by a vote of 312-111. The bill would limit proposed options accounting reforms in several ways:

Stand-Alone ESOPs Exempted; IRS Blocked from Implementing Withholding Taxes on ISOs and ESPPs

The "Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act of 2000" (H.R.

We are interested in writing brief stories about how employee ownership companies are coping with the downturn, whether you have found ways to make money anyway or have come up with strategies to deal with necessary reductions in costs, hours, or work force.

Our recent ESOP Topics Survey asked companies to reflect on how employee ownership is affecting their ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The responses show some encouraging perspectives on how an ESOP and an effective culture of ownership can help companies survive and thrive in crisis.

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