The Chancellor announced the outlines of a new type of employment contract today, the premise of which is that an employee will give up some employment rights in exchange for CGT-exempt shares in their employee.
The Treasury announcement is here and its main points are set out below. As to how these shares would interact with good leaver / bad leaver provisions, all the announcement says (at note 2) is that the forthcoming consultation on the new contract “will include the details of restrictions on forfeiture provisions to ensure that if an employee-owner leaves or is dismissed, the company is not able simply to take the shares back but is able to buy them back at a reasonable price”.
Treasury announcement:
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