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In his retrospective on 2014, the UK Employee Ownership Association's Iain Hasdell noted that the number of employee-owned businesses in the UK increased by 9% during 2014, and the sector now is roughly the same size as the U

It seems that you can't be any kind of publication and not have a year-end review, often in the form of top ten lists. Not wanting to violate important traditions, here is my list of the top ten developments in employee ownership for the year.

NCEO members have been telling us that they want a creative way to reinforce a sense of team work and community during the pandemic, and courtesy of two of our member companies, we have a suggestion.

Not surprisingly, the economic difficulties we are facing have resulted in a significant increase in the number of often desperate calls we get from people who say they never got their ESOP distributions or, less often, the equity rights they were promised—or, if they got them, they were not what

We have just started work on a book of things not to do in an ESOP. We'll be covering a whole range of bad choices, from the imprudent to the ill-considered to the illegal, in each case basing a general principle on one or more brief case histories (often anonymous).

The Hamilton Project released the report Building on What Works: A Proposal to Modernize Retirement Savings by John Friedman of Brown University.

The recently passed pension reform bill accelerates vesting requirements for all defined contribution plans.

In an important decision, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that an employee who had been cashed out of a 401(k) plan nonetheless had standing to sue over questions about the prudence of investments in company stock. The decision in Graden v.

This month’s download for members is something many companies have already adopted (and something that we have heard is a need for many others): ownership rights and responsibilities. 

Thomas Friedman, the influential columnist for the NY Times and author (most recently) of the best-selling book The World Is Flat provides a ringing endorsement for broader employee ownership.