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A new study by Mary Ellen Carter at The Wharton School and Luann Lynch of the Darden School of Business titled "The Effect of Stock Option Repricing on Employee Turnover" finds that repricing executive options has no impact on turnover, while repricing options for non-executives in broad-based pl

After the dot-com bust, many companies decided to reprice their deeply underwater stock options, often more than once.

Lots of companies are looking at some form of repricing their underwater stock options. VM Ware, Tenet Healthcare, Marvel Technology, Integrated Silicon Solutions, and Maxim Solutions are among the estimated 50 or so companies that have repriced through December.

A thousand employees of Republic Airways Holdings and its Frontier Airlines subsidiary will soon receive an ownership stake in the company. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA approved a new collective bargaining agreement.

Republic Engineered Steels, one of the nation's largest majority employee owned firms, will soon do a public offering. The 5,000-employee company was saved from closing by an employee buyout and has since returned to profitability on an operating basis.

On July 18, the Republican Party adopted its 2016 platform, which includes this language: "Republicans believe that the employer-employee relationship of the future will be built upon employee empowerment and workplace flexibil

David Camp (R-Michigan), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a thousand-page "discussion draft" of his comprehensive proposal on tax reform.

House Republicans have led an effort to repeal section 133 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows lenders to exclude 50% of the interest income they receive on loans to certain ESOPs owning over 50% of a company's shares.

A new research project on ESOP terminations, performed by the NCEO and funded by the Employee Ownership Foundation, collected data from 23 large ESOP plan administration firms. They reported results from over 3,300 companies.

Speaking at a recent NCEO Webinar, Rebecca Miller of McGladrey & Pullen said that the Financial Accounting Standards Board has shelved its project on whether the ESOP repurchase obligation should show up as a liability on the balance sheet.