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- Title
EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP IN AUSTRALIA: THEORY, EVIDENCE, CURRENT PRACTICE AND REGULATION.
- Authors
Landau, Ingrid; Mitchell, Richard; O'Connell, Ann; Ramsay, Ian
- Abstract
Since at least the 1970s, employee share ownership has enjoyed bipartisan support in Australia. Despite broad and sustained public policy interest in employee share ownership, Australian literature on the subject remains scarce. There has also been very little in the way of comprehensive analysis of the regulatory framework. This paper provides an overview of employee share ownership from an Australian perspective. It be- gins by reviewing the literature on broad-based employee share ownership before turning to examine available data on Australian practice. It then considers how employee share ownership plans are currently provided for in public policy and law. Companies in Australia proposing to offer securities to employees must comply with a myriad of regulatory requirements. This paper examines these requirements. It also examines features of the current regulatory framework which have been identified as problematic.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; EMPLOYEE ownership; GOVERNMENT policy; LABOR incentives; CORPORATE governance; EMPLOYEE stock options; PROFIT-sharing; STOCK ownership; ACCOUNTING standards
- Publication
UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2007, Vol 25, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0884-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5070/p8251022196