Share schemes

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated to reflect the Government's 22 November 2023 announcement on fuel benefit charges.

• Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2019: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Away from health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, there are a host of other benefits available to employers to boost the package they offer to employees. We investigate some of the other benefits available.

• Date:

  5 April 2018

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Denial of unvested share options not discriminatory

  In Air Products plc v Cockram, the Court of Appeal held that the employment tribunal was correct to find that a rule in a long-term incentive share plan that employees whose employment terminates before they are 55 forfeit all unvested awards under the plan is justified.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review an employee share scheme

• Date:

  1 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employee share schemes deal with employees who leave due to retirement?

• Date:

  15 January 1999

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Transfer of undertakings: Regulations do not apply to share transfers

  There was no transfer to which the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations applied when an industrial and provident society took over the management of local authority care homes by, in effect, acquiring the shares of the company that ran the homes and employed the staff who worked in them, holds the EAT in Brookes and others v Borough Care Services and CLS Care Services Ltd.