Traduction de «système d'actionnariat des salariés » (Français → Anglais) :

14. Points out that employee ownership fosters much-needed social cohesion and serves as an important addition to sustainable corporate governance; stresses, nonetheless, the need to take precautions when promoting ownership schemes so as not to substitute wages with profit-sharing systems;

16. Acknowledges that business succession, additional funding, staff retention and other problems characteristic of SMEs, can be alleviated by employee share ownership plans; is of the opinion that employee ownership schemes in small and micro enterprises can be combined with labour market measures, such as unemployment benefits, and thus help to reinstate the unemployed;

25. Acknowledges that business succession, additional funding, staff retention and other problems characteristic of SMEs can be alleviated by employee share ownership plans; is of the opinion that employee ownership schemes in small and micro enterprises can be combined with labour market measures, such as unemployment benefits, and thus help to reinstate the unemployed;

20. Calls for sustainable long-term remuneration policies which should be based on the long-term functioning of the individual and his company; is of the view that inclusion of stock options as part of remuneration schemes should be minimised; supports, however, the promotion of voluntary employee share ownership schemes, carefully assessed so as to avoid exposure to risks from lack of diversification for employees, and open to all employees within a company; considers that employee share ownership should enable employees to share in the profits, but may not, under any circumstances, replace their wages or salaries or hinder collectiv ...[+++]e bargaining;

Finally the promotion of employee ownership schemes through a fair tax treatment and a simple regulatory framework that reduces uncertainty for beneficiaries appears crucial to the development of fast growing and high-tech companies and the development of an entrepreneurship culture in Europe.

Member States are called upon to act in their areas of responsibility and speed up implementation of their own national initiatives, notably in (i) taxation of new firms and of investment in venture capital funds, (ii) insolvency and bankruptcy legislation reform, and (iii) promotion of employee ownership schemes.