JD Wetherspoon has promoted four of its area managers to provide “more pub experience” to its eight-strong board of directors, after a series of run-ins with employees, politicians and investors.
The pub chain flagged the move during its full-year results in October, and on Monday it announced it had appointed four new worker directors – with two named as “employee directors with full plc director status, and two as associate employee directors”.
Employee directors remain something of an oddity in the UK – although at one point they looked set to become a new trend, with businesses involving more employees in decision making.
In 2016 Theresa May, while campaigning to become prime minister, promised to make big companies appoint them. In the
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