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Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

Learning to Move in Rhythm: Task-Conditioned Motion Policies with Orbital Stability Guarantees
Maximilian St\"olzle, T. Konstantin Rusch, Zach J. Patterson, Rodrigo P\'erez-Dattari, Francesco Stella, Josie Hughes, Cosimo Della Santina, Daniela Rus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10602

Learning to Move in Rhythm: Task-Conditioned Motion Policies with Orbital Stability Guarantees
Learning from demonstration provides a sample-efficient approach to acquiring complex behaviors, enabling robots to move robustly, compliantly, and with fluidity. In this context, Dynamic Motion Primitives offer built - in stability and robustness to disturbances but often struggle to capture complex periodic behaviors. Moreover, they are limited in their ability to interpolate between different tasks. These shortcomings substantially narrow their applicability, excluding a wide class of practi…

A Guide to Bayesian Optimization in Bioprocess Engineering
Maximilian Siska, Emma Pajak, Katrin Rosenthal, Antonio del Rio Chanona, Eric von Lieres, Laura Marie Helleckes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10642