Hiring the right person is and always has been difficult. Between figuring out where to find talent, how to attract the right candidates to your business, and ultimately convincing a candidate to come work with you, recruiting is a highly involved and difficult process. According to Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, “There was a talent gap before the pandemic; so it wasn’t like this occurred because of COVID-19.” Enter COVID and the talent gap is...

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The EACC, in partnership with the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI), wants to keep its members up to date with the latest developments in property taxes in the USA and Europe. IPTI has put together below a selection of articles from IPTI Xtracts; more articles can be found on its website (www.ipti.org). UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA New York: Local property taxes to be capped at 2% next year Local government property taxes in New York next year will hit their statutory cap...

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Senior Managing Director Thomas R. Evrard of FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications answers a critical question for the hybrid workforce. In Brief: For years, the informal “water cooler” conversation has been an essential component of office life. While it may have evaporated during the pandemic, there are ways to encourage and support a new, hybrid model as members of your workforce return to the office. While we might be comfortable with remote work, video chats, and communicating with our teams via message...

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The European Commission can continue its investigation into the alleged State aid granted by the Netherlands to Nike in the form of several tax rulings. On 14 July 2021, the General Court (the "Court") dismissed the appeal of Nike European Operations Netherlands BV ("NEON") and Converse Netherlands BV ("CN"), part of the Nike Group ("Nike"), against the European Commission's ("Commission") decision to initiate a formal investigation into the alleged State aid granted by the Netherlands to Nike in the form...

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Vice-Presidents of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Lilyana Pavlova and Kris Peeters spoke in separate panels at the Seventh Prague European Summit (PES) and shared the EIB’s views on COVID-19 recovery, the green transition and the future of sustainable mobility in the European Union. Since its inception in 2015, the Prague European Summit advances strategic discussions about pan-European topics from a Central-Eastern European perspective. The EIB is working with the PES for the second year in a row to contribute towards high...

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On June 11, the Biden administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) released the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC or Commission) rulemaking agenda (Rulemaking Agenda) as part of the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Rulemaking Agenda outlines a panoply of items that, taken together, summarize the SEC’s plan for near- and long-term regulatory action for the upcoming year. This is, of course, not the industry’s first glimpse into what we can expect from...

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"Fit for 55" aims to radically transform Europe's transportation Earlier this year, the European Union legally committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 55%, compared to 1990, by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050. The Commission’s new “Fit for 55” package has now proposed far-reaching legislation to radically transform Europe’s transport system. Among the many initiatives put forward by the European Commission, its proposed phasing out of the internal combustion engine by 2035 is surely Commission President von der Leyen’s landmark proposal. While...

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