ESOPs and Overseas Employees: Why Multi-National Share Plans Become Expensive for Australian Companies

For Australian companies, an ESOP, employee share scheme or share plan can be a great way to attract and retain staff by giving them a future stake in the business. But the position becomes much more complicated when the company wants to offer options to employees based overseas. What looks like a simple extension of an Australian employee share option plan can quickly become an expensive and time-consuming compliance exercise. Once you move into the world of multi-national share plans or global share plans, you are no longer just dealing […]