{"id":17636,"date":"2015-07-03T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2015-07-03T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:33:13","slug":"today-is-employee-ownership-day-so-whats-it-like-working-for-a-mutual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17636","title":{"rendered":"Today is Employee Ownership Day &#8211; so what&#8217;s it like working for a mutual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Created by the <a href=\"http:\/\/employeeownership.co.uk\/about-the-employee-ownership-association\/\">Employee Ownership Association<\/a> in 2013 and supported by business, an array of trade and industry groups and across the political spectrum, <a href=\"http:\/\/employeeownership.co.uk\/events\/eo-day\/\">Employee Ownership Day<\/a> is a unique opportunity to highlight and celebrate the significant benefits employee ownership delivers to the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as it happens, I am on the Board of a mutual organisation which is owned and controlled by the staff. Only this week, I chaired a Board meeting of the Tinder Foundation which approved a suggestion &#8211; from one of the newest and most junior staff members &#8211; that has changed the remuneration policy of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>You can read her observations on working for the Tinder Foundation, together with the thoughts of a longer-served staff member, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinderfoundation.org\/our-thinking\/blog\/why-being-employeeowned-makes-difference\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud to be associated with an organisation with such great staff that does such wonderful work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by the Employee Ownership Association in 2013 and supported by business, an array of trade and industry groups and across the political spectrum, Employee Ownership Day is a unique opportunity to highlight and celebrate the significant benefits employee ownership delivers to the UK economy. Now, as it happens, I am on the Board of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17641,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17636\/revisions\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}