To make sure that opinion doesn't get enforced, the Worker Economic Opportunity Act would amend the labor law to exclude from base pay any income derived from a stock option, stock appreciation right or employee stock purchase plan.
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Stock option plans differ legally from employee stock purchase plans ( or ESPPs ) and employee stock ownership plans ( or ESOPs ), and involve an employer granting stock to employees with a certain vesting schedule and exercise price.
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Shareholders also approved proposals reducing the number of Sprint directors from 10 to eight, increasing the number of shares of PCS common stock under Sprint's employees stock purchase plan and approving Ernst & Young as the company's auditors for 2001.
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The company also said that, beginning in 2005, it intends to follow the lead of some other large public companies and start to expense the costs of stock options awarded to its employees and of its employee stock purchase plan.
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But the pain of losing almost 50 percent in share value is perhaps most excruciating to the thousands of Marsh & McLennan employees who have bought Marsh stock in the company's employee stock purchase plan or in their retirement plans.
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Shareholders also approved proposals reducing the number of Sprint directors from 10 to eight, increasing the number of shares of PCS common stock under Sprint's employees stock purchase plan and approving Ernst & AMP; Young as the company's auditors for 2001.
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But the pain of losing almost 50 percent in share value is perhaps most excruciating to the thousands of Marsh & amp; McLennan employees who have bought Marsh stock in the company's employee stock purchase plan or in their retirement plans.
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Stock is offered to associates through 3 programs : PROFIT ( Publix People Reaching Our Future Investing Together ) plan ( ESOP ), 401 ( k ) SMART ( Saving Makes A Richer Tomorrow ) plan, and an employee stock purchase plan.
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Eight people who once worked for the computer software company sued in 1992, saying they and thousands more " permatemps " illegally had been shut out of an employee stock purchase plan that allows employees to buy Microsoft stock at a discount.
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The Employment Policy Foundation says implementation of such a ruling could mean an average annual loss of $ 1, 737 in equity value for employees who participate in equity programs such as employee stock purchase plans, stock bonus and grant programs, or stock appreciation rights.
