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ESOP Centre chairman honoured with Remy Schlumberger award

On June 26 2012 By

Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston is the new holder of the prestigious Remy Schlumberger Award for extraordinary achievement and commitment to the principles of financial participation and financial education for employees in the UK, the EU and globally.

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Malcolm Hurlston to speak on EFP in the Royal Mail at Brussels seminar

On April 18 2012 By

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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Centre workshop sends UK message to Europe

On June 14 2011 By

Centre workshop sends UK message to Europe

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) all over Europe can look forward to a boost from the European Union if they wish to install employee share ownership schemes, chairman Malcolm Hurlston told a Centre workshop in London.

Organised at the request of the European Economic & Social Committee project: ‘Promoting EFP in the EU 27,’ the workshop was hosted by Centre member Travers Smith at its London HQ near Smithfield.

 

More than 40 representatives from SMEs, employee equity advisers, academics, trade unions and the media heard Mr Hurlston praise the EESC initiative, aimed at stepping up pressure on the EU Commission and Council of Ministers to beat the drum more loudly for Eso, especially in the SME sector.

One outcome could be an EU Directive ordering member states to offer better incentives to companies to get them to introduce and/or expand employee share ownership within their businesses, delegates heard from the EESC project co-ordinator.

Another is that the Centre will be invited to present evidence on how to advance the Eso cause to a parliamentary select committee, just as soon as it can push the subject onto its agenda, an MP said.

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