On Friday 10 December 2021 Amadeus’ HR Director of Group Rewards, Jost Meye and CORPGRO’s Founder Director, Damian Carnell will debate the idea that employee voting can be an insight into employee views if these votes are counted alone; not within the overall vote result.It is a tool to enhance […]
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Separate employee shareholder votes urged
Extracted from newspad. The Centre is to examine the proposal that all quoted companies should record separately employee votes in order to improve board understanding of their concerns. This was decided by member participants in a lively online members’ webclave, hosted by the Esop Centre, to study a paper entitled […]
Nigel Mason
RM2 share sad news that the employee ownership champion has died Malcolm Hurlston CBE writes: The untimely death of Nigel Mason will leave a huge gap in the world of employee ownership. He started over 30 years ago with Industrial Common Ownership Finance, the practical subsidiary of ICOM. Ever since, […]
Roadchef compensation tax battle goes to mediation
Extracted from newspad September 2021 An independent mediator is to be appointed in an attempt to resolve the impasse between HMRC and the Roadchef EBT trustee over the tax status of the compensation pot, which c. 350+ former Esop employee participants have been trying to get their hands on for seven and […]
Red lights flash for all-employee share schemes
Growing malaise in the all-employee share schemes sector is disguised by SMEs adopting options-based Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI), new HMRC statistics reveal. While the overall number of companies operating tax-advantaged employee share schemes rose by six percent to 15,340 in the tax year ended April 2020, a record 13,970 of […]
Centre responds to EMI: Call for Evidence
The Esop Centre responded to the Treasury’s Call for Evidence, on whether and how more UK companies should be able to access share options based Enterprise Management Incentive to help them recruit and retain the talent they need to scale up, urging chancellor Rishi Sunak to reboot EMI by tearing […]
2020 newspad Awards
Thank you to everyone who has submitted entries for the 2020 newspad all-employee share plan awards. The results were announced during the Centre’s first on-line Annual Share Plans Symposium 24 March 2021 and details will be published in the April 2021 issue of newspad. The newspad awards recognise the achievements of companies which offer employee […]
Esop Centre Share Plans Symposium, 23-25 March 2021
More than 70 people, including a large number of share plan sponsor companies, registered for the Centre’s twice pandemic postponed Fourth British Isles Share Plans Symposium, which was held online over three days in late March. Each day’s webclave featured a specific theme, successively: All–employee share plans & regulation; Executive […]