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The Assistant Labor Secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, Ann Combs, has told the BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter (January 4, 2005) that the Labor Department will begin a special enforcement project on employer stock in defined contribution plans.

A new process agreement between the Department of Labor and Farmers National Bank (FNB) was made public on February 28. It lays out a much more detailed process for evaluating whether an ESOP actually has and can pay for control.

The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) reports that 36% of participants in the EBRI 401(k) plan database were in plans that offered company stock as an investment. Where company stock was an option, 18.3% of participants selected that as one of their holdings.

One of the most inspiring and thought-provoking stories in employee ownership that of SAIC, one of the largest and most innovative employee-owned companies in the United States, and the Foundation for Enterprise Development has just released the second edition of the definitive book on SAIC, writ

Rutgers University announced the 2012-2013 Employee Ownership Fellows. The new awards bring the total number of research fellows up to 72. The program is managed by Dr. Joseph Blasi, who holds the J. Robert Beyster professorship.

The NCEO has released two new videos about employee ownership on its sister website www.esopinfo.org.

On June 25, the Australian Senate passed the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Employee Share Schemes) Bill 2015, designed to encourage equity compensation plans

NCEO member Stock & Option Solutions is conducting a brief equity compensation market research study. It will make the data available to the NCEO for analysis. The survey contains questions about technical resources, net exercise provisions, and biggest challenges in equity compensation.

We recently released three new ESOP-related books: Don't Do That with Your ESOP! 3rd ed., Executive and Director Compensation in ESOP Companies, 8th ed., and Banks as ESOP Sponsors.

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), arguably the most conservative member of Congress, has paired with Bernie Saunders (D-VT), the only Socialist member of Congress, to introduce H.R.