Activities
The Employee Ownership Group (EOG) is an employee ownership policy 'think tank' and advocacy group.
The EOG has identified the reasons why employee share ownership is presently neither wide nor deep throughout Australia and benefits only a comparatively small number of employees mostly confined to the listed company sector.
Employee Share Plan Reform
Responding to the problems identified, the EOG has formulated an integrated reform plan designed to liberate employee share ownership from the narrow legislative confines in which it is currently penned. To this task the EOG has brought to bear the technical and practical expertise of its members in employee share plan design, implementation, and operation. The fruit of this work is set out in our EOG Policy document.
Employee Ownership Lobby
The EOG, however, has not just been thinking up great plans. It wants to see them implemented - and the EOG membership has come together to do just this.
Since its inauguration in 2002 the EOG has actively lobbied the Federal Government and in the Federal Parliament.
To this end the EOG has conducted a long series of discussions on practical employee ownership reform measures with key Ministers, Cabinet officers, and senior ministerial advisers, with Members of Parliament and Senators, and with key Treasury officials.
As an example of this work, you can see EOG's submission to the "Henry Review" called "Australia's Future Tax System and Employee Share Ownership Plans".
Just as EOG members have contributed directly to the development of the Group's policy, so have they also been directly engaged in the Group's policy advocacy activities. EOG members play a very much hands-on role in the Group's activities.