Employee Ownership Links and Resources

Employee Ownership is one way for business owners to plan for a smooth succession.

Succession is a key issue facing business owners who often see no easy way of realising the value built up over the years while safeguarding the jobs of longstanding and loyal employees.

Many business owners have found a successful solution by selling the business to the employees. If offers a way to secure the business and jobs in the community, retaining its independence and rewarding employees.

Employee Ownership Links and Resources

Australian Employee Ownership Association (AEOA) Online

A resource for association members and visitors intersted in employee ownership issues.

Follow this link for more information on AEOA (opens in a new browser window)

Employee Ownership Options

Employee Ownership Options has been set up to provide information on how employee ownership can bring benefits to employees, business owners and trade unionists within the European Union.

Follow this link for more information on Employee Ownership Options (opens in a new browser window)

Employee Ownership Group

The EOG is a network of corporations committed to promoting Employee Share Ownership Plans for all employees.  The EOG envisages an Australia in which employee share plans will be widespread in the workplace and run deep within businesses.   Their mission is to design and advocate laws governing employee share plans: laws which allow ESOPs to be more easily implemented and operated, in every kind of company, and for share plans to be taxed fairly. 

Follow this link to the Employee Ownership Group website (opens in a new browser window)

Community Cooperative Connections (CCC) eNews

Published by the Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Managment, and edited by the Mercury Centre, CCC eNews is a forum for social commentary, news and events, industry features, case studies and profiles, research papers and reports. The aim of the newsletter is to advocate the role of cooperatives and the social economy in Australia and overseas.

Follow this link to download the latest copy of CCC eNews (opens in a new browser window)

Delivering Employee Ownership

 A network of specialist organisations and businesses committed to employee ownership.  Their website contains information on employee ownership including:

1. Why succession
2. What is succession
3. Information Sources: organisations in the UK committed to employee ownership
4. Technical issues: legal structures for employee ownership

Follow this link to the Delivering Employee Ownership website (opens in a new browser window)