The European Parliament adopted a non-legislative resolution on 14 January 2014 to encourage the establishment and development of employee financial participation schemes. These schemes typically take one of three forms: profit sharing (cash-based, deferred or in shares), individual employee share ownership (employee shares or stock options) or employee stock ownership plans. The resolution calls for the lifting of barriers to these schemes, which include taxation issues and transnational obstacles faced by schemes offered to employees across several Member States.

The resolution is available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A7-2013-0465&language=EN

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