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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2025 - 2026
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 4, 2024 09:26 AM |
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| From: | Senator Frank A. Farry and Sen. Tracy Pennycuick |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Establishing the Office of Employee Ownership |
| In the next ten years, nearly 2.5 million businesses headed by baby boomers, that employ 25 million people, will be looking to transfer the ownership of their company. Converting these businesses to an employee ownership model could be a viable solution to allow an owner to strategize their exit while keeping the company and the jobs in the community and honoring the business owner's legacy. With dedicated resources, Pennsylvania would be a leader in helping workers take over the business, gain an ownership stake, reorganize it, and navigate a successful path forward by adopting an employee-owned model. To address this concern, we are introducing legislation will establish the Office of Employee Ownership within the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) to do just that. The expressed goal of the office is to provide educational, financial, and technical assistance to existing employee-owned companies and those firms seeking to retain jobs by restructuring an existing business into an employee-owned enterprise. Keeping and growing Pennsylvania-based companies is paramount to the economic success of our Commonwealth. Through the expansion of employee ownership enterprises, we can assist in creating an economic climate that is good for workers, good for business owners, and good for the host community. We ask you to join us in co-sponsoring legislation assisting Pennsylvania workers in seizing an opportunity to reorganize their workplace, save local businesses, and better our economy through employee ownership. |