Norman Lamb, the Minister for Employment Relations, Postal and Consumer Affairs, praised the Centre’s work at its annual conference on share schemes for SMEs on May 15, organised in collaboration with the Institute of Directors.

“I am very grateful to Malcolm Hurlston [...]

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Our Employee share schemes for SMEs conference, held at the Institute of Directors on May 15, saw the participation of minister Norman Lamb and government adviser Graeme Nuttall among others.

It was an information packed [...]

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The HMRC’s employment-related shares and securities unit has introduced a new newsletter for their customers and stakeholders to keep the industry informed of its latest thinking.

You can access the first issue at this link, or browsing it below.

The bulletin will be published on an ad hoc [...]

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In the past few weeks, boardrooms on both sides of the Atlantic have been shaken by a series of shareholder rebellions against excessive executive pay packages.

An average 10.5 per cent of shareholders have voted against remuneration reports thus far in 2012, a much higher figure than during the period between [...]

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Public services may represent the next great opportunity for the expansion of employee share ownership schemes.

On Monday in Brussels, Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston addressed the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises Providing Public Services or CEEP. He reviewed the  considering an employee share ownership scheme, [...]

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Minister Norman Lamb will open the ESOP Centre’s conference on employee share schemes for SMEs, to be held at the Institute of Directors, London, on May 15 alongside Graeme Nuttall, government adviser on employee ownership.

Norman [...]

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The workers of MyCSP Ltd, the civil service pension scheme providers, are to become partial owners of their business. It is a historical step, as it is the first time that a British government service will be partially owned by its [...]

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The ESOP Centre’s annual conference for trustees was held on April 27 at the Royal Yacht Hotel in St Helier, Jersey. As usual, the conference was organised in partnership with the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners STEP Jersey.

A crowd of over forty delegates, most of whom were trustees from the Channel [...]

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The European Centre for Employers and Enterprises providing Public services (CEEP) will hold a seminar on Employee Financial Participation in Brussels on May 7.

Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the ESOP Centre, will take part in the expert panel discussion on  “Profit Sharing: example from Public Services providers”. He will [...]

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