Scottish Company Reveals Ditching of 'Employee Director' Role

Scottish company reveals ditching of 'employee director' role

The Scottish company will no longer have an 'employee director' on its board, it has revealed

Firstgroup quietly ends long-running employee director policy

FirstGroup, one of Britain’s earliest adopters of employee directors on company boards, has quietly ended the long-running practice—delivering a symbolic blow to the once-ambitious drive to give workers a greater say in corporate governance. The transport operator, which introduced employee representation on its board in the 1990s, confirmed it would no longer reserve a seat for a worker director. In its latest filings, the company offered littl…