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Executive pay: financial incentives damage long-term profits
The more focus companies put on financial incentives for CEOs’ bonuses, the worse the firm’s commercial performance, according to a...
Made.com offers share options to staff
Furniture retailer Made.com is handing out shares in the company to all staff below senior management level, after achieving £1bn sales since it launched.
Labour could ban City bonuses
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has said a future Labour government could ban bonuses in the City, unless the financial...
BT to allocate £50m shares to employees
BT is to distribute £50m in shares each year to staff as it sets out to improve customer service, alter its workplace culture and improve workforce morale.
Royal Mail workers lose money after drop in share price
Hundreds of Royal Mail employees with free shares in the company have lost money because of a dramatic fall in...
Labour plans compulsory employee share ownership
A future Labour government would require all companies with 250 or more employees to give shares to their workers worth...
Deliveroo calls for new gig worker status
Food delivery company Deliveroo has announced plans to offer its self-employed couriers sick pay as it calls on the Government...
How to get the most out of good leaver/bad leaver provisions
Kate Schmit and Nicholas Atkins look at the use of good leaver/bad leaver provisions to incentivise employees, and suggest that...
The benefits and challenges of employee share incentives
Recent academic research looking into the impact of employee share ownership provides some fairly compelling data to support arguments that...
Employee-shareholder contracts: five things you need to know
On 1 September 2013, a new kind of employment contract – the employee-shareholder contract – is introduced. Employee-shareholders will benefit...
Employee-shareholder status comes at expense of employment rights
The Government intends its new legislation to come into force in September, but many employers, workers and unions feel that...
Lords’ approval of shares-for-rights proposal met with criticism
The decision by the House of Lords to approve the “shares-for-rights” clause in the Government’s Growth and Infrastructure Bill has...
House of Lords rejects ‘shares for rights’ proposal for second time
The House of Lords has voted for the second time to reject the Government’s “shares-for-rights” proposal, only weeks after it previously...
House of Commons reinstates ‘rights for shares’ proposal after Lords rejection
The House of Commons has voted to reinstate the Government’s controversial “rights for shares” proposal into the Growth and Infrastructure...
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