Only 350 firms have taken up the coalition's controversial employee shareholder status - less than 6% of the government's anticipated demand.
The initiative (commonly referred to as the shares for rights contract) was introduced late in 2013 after much wrangling and many rejections by the House of Lords. Under the scheme employees are...
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