Employee ownership
As the association of employee owned and trust owned businesses, the Employee Ownership Association aims to increase the number of co-owned companies, and spread the benefits of employee ownership.
Employee ownership can involve:
- 100% employee ownership of a company via shares or a trust
- Less than 100% but more than 50% employee ownership of a company
- The term employee ownership doesn't exclude management – who are very much part of the ownership and running of co-owned businesses.
In other words, employee ownership is about everyone in the company owning part of it – via a trust or shares - and where no outside interest has a controlling stake