Compensating independent contractors with Company Stocks

Society for Human Resource Management
In an article posted on the SHRM website (Society of Human Resource Management), Joanne Sammer, a New Jersey-based business and financial writer, discussed the solution to pay independent contractors with Company Stocks
 
In some situations, companies choose to pay independent contractors with company stock in the form of stock options, restricted stock, or outright stock grants.

New era for employee share plans in the UK

The British government has given the green light to substantial simplification and reform of all four approved share ownership schemes during the course of the next 15 months, following an exhaustive review, which concluded that major changes had to be made quickly to head off strangulation of the employee share ownership sector by overregulation and excessive bureaucracy.