Cliff vesting is a common concept in the world of employee benefits and compensation, particularly in the context of stock options, retirement plans, and other long-term incentive programmes. It ...

Understanding this rule now could save you a lot of money down the road.

Following a ruling earlier this year by the Regional Labor Court of Munich on the validity of negative vesting clauses (more on this in one of our last Legal Ninja Snapshot), another ruling by a ...

I have worked at places that were so unpleasant that I consider myself lucky the vesting schedule was only six years. If they had the option, I’m convinced they would have implemented a 20-year ...

A vesting period is the time an employee must work for an employer in order to own outright employee stock options, shares of company stock or employer contributions to a tax-advantaged retirement ...

If you have a 401(k) account that offers an employer match, you may have to stay at the job for a certain length of time before those contributions become yours. That’s called vesting and it’s ...

Founder share vesting means that a founder may keep a certain percentage or all of their stocks or shares only after leaving the company post a specified period or event. A one-year cliff is generally ...