The number of companies offering tax-advantaged share schemes has doubled since 2000 but plans open to all employees have dipped to their lowest level during the period.
More employees are saving more money into share schemes following the increase of savings limits by the government.
The Hunt Review argued tax relief and other encouragements should be used to boost employee share schemes. Owain Thomas reports its findings.
Earlier this year, food and hospitality group Whitbread saw both a three- and five-year Save As You Earn (SAYE) schemes mature, benefiting more than 1,000 employees at the group's brands, which include Premier Inn, Costa, Beefeater and Brewers Fayre....
July 4 marked the second national employee ownership day. With share schemes and full employee ownership models seeing significant success, Nick Martindale addresses the benefits of giving staff a stake in the business.
More than 1.2 million UK employees saved into a Save As You Earn (SAYE) scheme in 2013, with a further million participating in a Share Incentive Plan (SIP), findings reveal.
Employers will be able to file employee share scheme data online with HM Revenue and Customs from 6 April.
Annual increases in the amount of money that workers can save in all-employee share schemes should be linked to inflation, says a share scheme lobby group.
Lloyds Bank and TSB employees are expected to get further opportunities to buy shares in the two firms through workplace share schemes in coming weeks.
A Parliamentary early day motion praising (EDM) the decision to raise savings caps of share schemes has been supported by MPs from across the political spectrum.