Only a handful of people in Congress have actually worked for an ESOP company, but Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is one of them. In an interview with Urban Milwaukee on July 3, Johnson suggested linking government assistance to employee ownership.
The U.S. Treasury's SSBCI program allocated funds to 31 states to support the creation and expansion of employee ownership. Learn how to take advantage.
UBS released a study that documents changes in attitudes about equity compensation and wealth management as employees have increased experience with such plans.
In a speech on October 8, George Osborne, the United Kingdom's Chancellor of the Exchequer and a member of the Conservative Party, proposed a new tax incentive for employee ownership, but with a catch.
The stock price of companies traded on the UK's FTSE stock index with at least 3% of their shares owned by broad-based employee ownership plans grew 53% in 2013, compared to 21% for other FTSE-listed companies.
Jo Swinson, the Business Minister of the United Kingdom, announced on November 19 that an index of the 69 companies on London's FTSE stock exchange with 3% or more of their shares h
Waitrose stores, part of the United Kingdom's largest employee-owned company, the John Lewis Partnership, funds a foundation that recently provided extensive electrification in the Kenyan town Eldama Ravine, where some Waitrose suppliers are based.
