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One of the most persistent myths about the work force is that employees don't stay with their employers the way that earlier generations did. It turns out this just isn't true.

The percentage of public and private companies with one or more of any kind of equity compensation plans that specifically offered stock options to nonexempt employees dropped slightly in 2004 compared to 2003, falling to about 13% of the 996 companies responding to the annual WorldatWork Salary

There has been a lot of buzz lately about replacing traditional stock awards with performance shares. "Performance shares" is a term of art, not a legal term. It is simply a plan that grants shares outright to an employee upon the achievement of a specified target.

In letters to Goldman Sachs and Texas Instruments, the SEC has ruled that companies cannot exclude shareholder proposals to require that options be performance based as "ordinary business matters." The letters follow a trend from the SEC to require companies to allow votes on how option plans are

If you were not able to join us last week for our sold-out conference in Pittsburgh, some of the highlights were the record-setting attendance, the buzz of the conversations in the common spaces, and the keynote address facilitated by Christopher Mackin and featuring Heather Braimbridge-Cox (Wind

On September 5, the Pittsburgh Citywide Task Force on Employee Ownership had its inaugural meeting.

A federal judge has ruled that a trustee cannot follow employee directions on unallocated shares in an ESOP, nor use mirror voting on shares for which no directions are received.

On July 21, the Center for American Progress, released the report Capitalism for Everyone.

A new policy paper, Expanding Employee Ownership: Toward a Stronger American Economy, builds the case for employee ownership and proposes three rarely explored policy options for creating more of it.

The IPO of the state-controlled coal company Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa raised 5.4 billion zlotys ($1.96 billion) for the Polish government.