newspad

The Esop Centre’s newspad, edited by Fred Hackworth, is a monthly publication providing in-depth coverage of the main international news in the employee share ownership field.

NB Reminder:   The email address of Fred Hackworth, editor of newspad, is: fred_hackworth@zyen.com  ​(please note the under-score).   Please send all press releases, company bulletins and news items for newspad to the above address. Thank you.

August 2022

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In this month’s edition:

TOP STORIES

• Alderman Michael Mainelli  to be next Lord Mayor of London and is now executive chairman of the Esop Centre
• Founding chairman Malcolm Hurlston CBE becomes Life President 
• Esop reforms sidelined by PM election crisis

SHARE SCHEMES

• All-employee EMI
• Boom in SIP free share awards
• Head-hunters choose equity incentives for employees

EVENTS

• Webinar: Esop sofa-newspad review – July 28 2022
• Report: Members’ webclave: Are all-employee plans still fit for purpose?

UK CORNER

• Still rising prices threaten employers
• Make Eso or profit-sharing in quoteds obligatory, urges HPC
• Audit and Corporate Governance reform

MOVERS & SHAKERS

• On the move

COMPANIES

• Executive reward, shareholder revolts and employee equity in 18 companies 

EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP

• Great Cornish Food Store, Minehead Medical Centre and Trident Building Consultancy 

WORLD NEWSPAD

• EU: Draft directive on corporate sustainability
• Australia: Digital bank Volt collapses
• Barclay’s Luxembourg arrangement helps it avoid £2bn in tax
• China: Dutch company Prosus to reduce its stake in Tencent
• Germany: amendments to the Act on Proof of the Existence of an Employment Relationship come into force
• Pinsent Masons expands into Luxembourg
• Russia: New sanctions prevent use of British consultancies
• Russia: More than15,000 millionaires expected to flee this year
• US: JPMorgan Chase agrees to pay $200m in fines after admitting communications circumvented federal recordkeeping requirements
• US: Peloton offers US employees cash bonus or stock compensation in bid to retain workforce
• US: Shareholders at Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo refuse to back climate proposals

Read this month’s newspad in full.

To access the Investment Public Register – referred to in newspad as the Investment Association’s ‘sin bin’ – go to www.theia.org/public-register

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