{"id":30115,"date":"2016-10-15T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-royal-mail-to-asda-company-schemes-that-give-workers-a-share\/"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T06:12:35","slug":"from-royal-mail-to-asda-company-schemes-that-give-workers-a-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-royal-mail-to-asda-company-schemes-that-give-workers-a-share\/","title":{"rendered":"From Royal Mail to Asda \u2013 company schemes that give workers a share"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom Saturday, postal workers can pocket a \u00a33,000 windfall by cashing in on its controversial flotation \u2013 but not everyone in a share scheme is so luckyThe stock market hitting an all-time high this week spells good news for thousands of people participating in company share schemes \u2013 and they\u00a0are not all fat-cat chief executives and board direectors.Saturday, 15 October, is a key date for about 139,000 postal workers who received free Royal Mail shares when the business was floated on the stock market in October 2013. Each full-time employee initially received 613 free shares, which were automatically put into an employee share scheme. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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