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EFES NEWSLETTER - MAYO 2011
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The
new Economic Survey 2010 is now available for downloading.
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here
It shows that employee ownership has continuously
progressed across Europe since the financial crisis.
The number of large companies that have employee ownership
was increasing (91.7%), as well as those having share
plans for all employees (53.7%) and those with stock
option plans (64.1%).
Remember 2008. Crisis. Panic. Howlings. "Employee
ownership is just going to die, let's forget that",
fault-finders said (even in Brussels). Now
here are facts.
Hereafter
the table of employee owners in some European countries
from 2007 to 2010 (in thousands people):
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Do
you YouTube? We do!
Our friends of the ESOP Association started a YouTube channel
recently (You can visit them here - http://www.youtube.com/user/ESOPAssoc)
and more videos will be added in the coming months so keep
watching. What we really want to share with you are videos
we found by ESOP companies that provide a laugh, some thoughtful
introspection on being part of an ESOP company, and the
benefits of being employee owned. There are also a few policy
based videos as well that bring a different perspective
to the viewing.
Press
review
Much new information about employee ownership in April 2011,
with 1.859 articles in this press review (on which 642 involving
stock options and 533 about workers' cooperatives). We made
a selection of 44 remarkable articles in 12 countries: Australia,
Botswana, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, South
Africa, Spain, Thailand, UK, USA.
Australia:
Now there's a new great Australian dream.
Botswana:
Privatisation including employee share ownership for the
National Development Bank.
Canada:
Tenth anniversary of becoming a workers' co-operative.
France:
The association of Rhodia employee shareholders recommends
to its members to tender their shares for Solvay’s offer.
Dissatisfaction about the French transposition of the European
Shareholders' Rights Directive. New employee share plan
for Vinci. Unions asking for a dedicated employee share
plan at Verallia. 2010 was a successful year for the French
workers coops.
Germany:
Employee shareholders questioning Siemens about nuclear
energy. Heinrich Beyer pleads for more employee ownership
in the Financial Times.
Italy:
Questioning the dominant position of employee shareholders
in popular banks.
Nigeria:
French oil giant, Total has closed subscription for its
new capital increase reserved for its over 100.000 employees
and retirees in the company's 120 host countries.
South
Africa: Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) will change
to award more points to broad-based and employee ownership
schemes. Jacob Zuma: "To broaden economic empowerment
to reach the masses of our people, we are encouraging various
forms of collective ownership of the economy such as employee
shareholding schemes, co-operatives and public ownership."
Spain:
National agreement to promote employee ownership and participation
in Gipuzkoa. Mondragon refers itself to the German model.
Thailand:
Internal succession is the structure typically followed
by family-owned businesses. Ownership and management are
usually transferred to family members or to management through
a management buyout or an Employee Share Ownership Plan
(Esop).
UK:
The coalition government’s second Budget is billed as a
"Budget for growth", it is a good time for business
owners to consider employee shareholdings. More businesses
should boost workers’ happiness by modeling themselves on
department store giant John Lewis, says a think-tank. The
Mutuals Information Service, the government-backed advice
service for public sector workers looking to go for employee
ownership, has already received inquiries from some 230
potential mutuals.
USA:
Dozens of small businesses in Hawaii say their ESOPs and
other forms of employee ownership help lower taxes and increase
employee motivation. Research: How perception of employee
stock options affects performance. The Arab Spring and economic
justice: Diffusing capital ownership.
La
revista de prensa esta disponible en:
http://www.efesonline.org/PRESS
REVIEW/2011/April.htm
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