Employee Ownership

NCEO, negli Stati Uniti, è il National Center For Employee Ownership 7. <Un’organizzazione senza scopo di lucro che sostiene la comunità dell’azionariato dei dipendenti dal 1981. La nostra missione è aiutare l’azionariato dei dipendenti a prosperare>. <L’azionariato dei dipendenti è un termine che indica qualsiasi accordo in cui i dipendenti di una società possiedono azioni della loro società o il diritto al valore delle azioni della loro società. L’azionariato dei dipendenti è un concetto ampio che può assumere molte forme, che vanno dalla semplice assegnazione di azioni a piani altamente strutturati. La forma più comune di azionariato dei dipendenti negli Stati Uniti è il piano di parteci- pazione azionaria dei dipendenti (ESOP).
Altre forme di azionariato dei dipendenti includono stock option, sovvenzioni azionarie, azioni sintetiche (che garantiscono il diritto al valore delle azioni ma non alle azioni stesse), cooperative di lavoratori e trust di proprietà dei dipendenti.
Accanto al braccio consulenziale esiste il braccio operativo. L’EON, Employee Ownership Expansion Network>8.
Quasi la metà degli stati americani ha una sede operativa dell’associazione. Ad oggi, 6.533 aziende per un totale di 14.7 milioni di partecipanti hanno aderito ad un employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
La coincidenza di date tra l’uscita dell’enciclica e la nascita dell’organizzazione (noi forse diremmo associazione) è casuale, ma l’allineamento di pensiero no.

Pope Endorses Employee Ownership Principles
Letter Consistent with John Paul II’s Endorsement of Broadened Employee Ownership
By Ronald J. Gilbert President, ESOP Services, Inc.

In Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical letter released in late June, “Caritas in Veritate” (Love in Truth), he endorses principles that are embodied in broadened employee ownership. In addition to the statements quoted below, Pope Benedict often refers to John Paul II’s encyclical, Laborem Exercens (On Human Work), in which worker-owned cooperatives were endorsed.
Paragraph 40 states, “Business management cannot concern itself only with the interests of the proprietors, but must also assume re- sponsibility for all the other stakeholders who contribute to the life of the business: the workers, the clients, the suppliers of various ele- ments of production, the community of reference.”
Paragraph 41 states, “Business activity has a human significance pri- or to its professional one. It is present in all work, understood as a personal action, and ‘actus personae,’ which is why every worker should have the chance to make his contribution knowing in some way ‘he is working for himself’…there exists various types of busi- ness enterprise over and above the simple distinction between and private and public…it favors cross-fertilization between different types of business activity.”
Another key reference addressing the ESOP financial model is in paragraph 65, “Finance, therefore- through the renewed structures and operating methods that have to be designed after its misuse, which wreaked such havoc on the real economy now needs to go back to being an instrument directed toward improved wealth cre- ation and development (emphasis added). Insofar as they are instru- ments, the entire economy and finance, not just certain sectors, must be used in an ethical way so as to create suitable conditions for hu- man development and for the development of peoples.” This state- ment echoes the principles of providing employees access to credit and broadening the ownership of stock put forth by the father of the ESOP, Louis O. Kelso.
ESOPs have a thirty-five year record of creating wealth for employee owners without the investment of employee funds.

7 https://www.nceo.org/
8 https://www.eoxnetwork.org/

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