Here you will find important resources published by the Esop Centre and others on employee share ownership.
An article in which David Craddock links social mobility to direct employee share ownership and explores the connection of social mobility to levelling-up.
In this article David Pett and Suzannah Crookes look at how CSOPs have been used until now; what changes could usefully have been made; and to what extent the legislative changes will make CSOP options more attractive to companies.
David Craddock offers a prescription for UK companies and the British Government on how to address the challenge to improve the nation’s industrial productivity through the application of employee share ownership economics.
Keynote speech to the Esop Centre’s Employee Share Plans & Trustees Conference 2022, Friday, 13 May 2022, at the Pomme d’Or Hotel, St Helier, Jersey.
Esop Centre booklet that explains the benefits of employee share ownership and their attachment to a number of levels, from the micro to the macro.
Esop Centre promotes the disclosure of employee share ownership and voting in financial reports.
Report on the role of employee financial participation in creating jobs and reactivating the unemployed by Renate Weber for the European Parliament
Presentation by David Craddock for The ESOP Institute and STEP Jersey Share Schemes and Trustees’ Seminar May 17 2019.
A report by Mick McAteer of the Financial Inclusion Centre for the TUC.
Presentation focusing on the Channel Islands by David Craddock for the Esop Institute/STEP Guernsey seminar November 30 2018
Independent review for BIS, by Graeme Nuttall, on employee ownership. Explains the obstacles to promoting employee owned companies, and sets out a framework for knocking them down. Makes recommendations to government on how to promote employee ownership.
Esop Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston offers a five-point plan for trades unions. He encourages them to engage with employee share ownership and become an invaluable resource for workers to help them understand how they could benefit from share schemes. The speech was originally delivered at the ProEFP conference in October 2011 in Brussels.
The Esop Centre's review of the annual statistics on employee share ownership by HM Revenue & Customs. Despite government advocacy for employee share ownership, the number of companies offering an approved share scheme and the number of participants continues to fall.
The Esop Centre's review of the annual statistics on employee share ownership by HM Revenue & Customs. According to the Centre's analysis, a record number of companies in the UK operated a government approved share scheme last year. However, the headline upward movement belies a number of concerning trends.
Conference report: London workshop organised to discuss the promotion of the financial participation in the EU27 (May 2011). The Esop Centre is the UK partner of the ProEFP programme of the European Economic and Social Committee.
Two expert round-tables were organised to discuss the possible shape for the employee shareholding which will form part of the Royal Mail privatisation. In this paper you will find a review of various models used in the past when privatising state companies, and ideas for the future that would benefit the company and its workers.
Esop Centre lobbying report: Employee Share Ownership - Towards a Rational Common Framework. A silver bullet for the coalition government (December 2010). The paper led to a review of share scheme legislation in the UK by the Office of Tax Simplification.