{"id":349,"date":"2018-04-03T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:17:19","slug":"what-other-countries-have-laws-encouraging-employee-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/2018\/04\/what-other-countries-have-laws-encouraging-employee-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"What Other Countries Have Laws Encouraging Employee Ownership?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the United States has a rich history of allowing and encouraging employee ownership, our nation is not the only one in the world with laws that enable and govern employee ownership of companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the former USSR countries have gotten into the action and formed employee ownership privatization plans. Not to be outdone, socialist China has followed suit and has put together some options regarding employee ownership as well. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>According to the 2009 <\/span>PEPPER IV Report<\/span><\/a> that focused on employee ownership in twenty-seven Eurogroup states and two candidate countries, the movement toward employee ownership is on the rise in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK is a different story. For reasons that are not entirely clear, employee ownership hasn\u2019t caught on in the UK like it has in the USA and in the expanding economies of China and Southern Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Two Main Employee Ownership Models at Play on the Global Stage<\/b><\/p>\n

When one moves beyond privatization plans, there are basically two models functioning across the world today.<\/span><\/p>\n