Employee Ownership, ESOP & Co-op Conversion Watch

Track employee ownership in the United States. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: Department of Labor ESOP valuation, adequate consideration and fiduciary rule changes and guidance; state employee ownership center openings, conversion grant and loan programs and tax incentive changes; federal ESOP tax rule changes; employee ownership trust and worker cooperative law changes by state; ESOP formations, sales and terminations at companies with 500 or more workers; ESOP litigation, DOL enforcement and settlements with participant payouts; repurchase obligation, vesting and distribution rule changes; SBA lending rule changes for employee buyouts; and major resource and program launches from NCEO, Project Equity, the ICA Group and Democracy at Work. Prefer the Department of Labor, state programs and legislatures, the SBA, court documents, company announcements and established business reporting; ignore advisor marketing. Put the state, program or company first in the title with the dollar effect for a worker or an owner. Use high severity for a DOL rule change, a grant program with a closing window, a settlement with participant payouts, or a termination affecting 1,000 or more workers. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.