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A new study, “Contribution of S ESOPs to Participants’ Retirement Security and Employee-Owner Benefits,” prepared for the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (

Our recent ESOP Topics Survey asked companies to reflect on how employee ownership is affecting their ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The responses show some encouraging perspectives on how an ESOP and an effective culture of ownership can help companies survive and thrive in crisis.

On June 26, the United Kingdom observed Employee Ownership Day with celebrations in hundreds of companies across the country.

On February 1, the evening NBC News Now is running the story “When workers are owners, they often get better benefits and a chance to build wealth.

On December 31, 2020, the Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing announced the 1

According to the latest data available from the Department of Labor, there were 6,660 ESOPs sponsored by 6,365 companies as of the end of 2016. These plans cover 14.3 million participants and hold close to $1.4 trillion in plan assets. A total of 10.7 million participants are active employees.

A new NCEO study found that, over the last 10 years, 68 private company ESOP court cases had results in settlements or judgments that cost the defendants a total of $385.5 million. The average payout per employee in these cases was $14,400 per participant.

On October 15, the NCEO released a new publication, A Guide to DOL ESOP Investigations, that provides the first comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the Department of Labor’s ESOP investigations.

The NCEO just completed a large grant-funded project examining whether and how employee ownership affected companies and employees in the U.S. food system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new NCEO study commissioned by the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA) found that workers who own their companies via an ESOP have far greater retirement security than the majority of the American workfor