Esop Centre newspad
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March 2025
INTRODUCTION
EVENTS
UK CORNER
- Firms plan job cuts as employment costs rise
- Inflation jumps on food, air fares and school fees
- Payments regulator to be scrapped in red tape slash rumour
- Treasury confirms shift to one-day settlements
- Savings providers vow to fight any attempt to cut cash Isa limit
COMPANIES - EXECUTIVE REWARD
- Ceo pay in Europe has stagnated over the past decade
- Governance failures erode public trust and investor confidence
- Big banks remove climate targets from executive bonuses
- British American Tobacco ceo’s pay set to triple to £18m
- Dorset Council to pay new ceo more than prime minister
- RFU pay scheme deemed fair despite criticism
- Australia: Greens demand NBN ceo pay cut in exchange for bill support
- Banco Santander grants shares and options in executive pay plan
COMPANIES - EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP NEWS
WORLD NEWSPAD
- India: Rapido announces first Esop liquidity programme
- Norway: Veidekke- Shares purchased by employees in 2025
- South Africa: Engen's employee share ownership plan empowers staff
- South Korea: T’way Air execs withdraw Esop shares amid management dispute
- USA: Billion-dollar sale brings windfalls of up to $10m
- USA: First employee-owned PBC in commercial real estate
- USA: Churchill Holdings settles Esop lawsuit
- USA: US economy ‘less safe’ without consumer board
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