Most big employers don't last that long anymore, the corporations are bought up or merged and the existing stockholders loose most of what they have invested. Insider trading is always happening with the elite, the regular guy looses out. What kind of scam is this guy trying to start?

Hmmm workers give up rights for company shares,workers with no rights have shares removed by company and then have employment removed as well when company is bought out. Rightless workers then have no recourse. Sounds to me like a reciepe for slavery. Anyone who would acede to this and trust corporations to treat them fairly is a fool of the first order.

There will always be unemployed people and there will always be what is commonly referred to as the "working class". That's why I'm always skeptical when I hear about new concepts of battling unemployment.

That's because the whole system can not function without either group. They are vital pillars upon which every political system must rely in order to work, and therefore things like "employment rights" are misled ideas of no real value at all. All businesses without exception produce things. Either directly through goods, or indirectly through services. Now what does "a right to employment" really mean in this context ? It means that society guarantees to pay you and employ you, even though the goods you produce are nor needed and of no benefit to society. A concept doomed to fail from the very beginning.

You can not create food and common goods with a population consisting out of academics only, and without the unemployed there would be no reason for the others to go to work. So even though the mentioned concept may work for this particular company, it can and will not impact unemployment numbers, no matter how massively you deploy it.

If you give every dog in the kennel a bone all the time, why would they make tricks for you.

If a person agrees with this does it come with a complimentary ball and chain? This is just an attempt at making people to become slaves willingly.

Who does he think we are?

Who in their right mind would give up all those employment benefits in exchange for some shares which probably pay pennies in dividends.....

Even though I work for a profitable company and have nearly 10 years service, the only shares I have ever owned were given as a bonus (and where promptly sold), not by me sacrificing my rights. Shares can be fleeting, their value changes daily on the whims of prats in stupid suits in Canary Wharf, but a potential months pay for every year served redundancy package and my protection against unfair dismissals are priceless...

Bollocks to that, George. You must think we're all bloody stupid....