By Joanna Massey, President & CEO, JDMA Inc. To attract and keep young employees, few things are as vital to today’s companies as transparency. Frankly, that is true of all human communications. Human beings have intuition and we can sense when people are withholding themselves from us. Regardless of whether it is a professional negotiation or a personal interaction. For millennials and Gen Z, who have grown up with a constant flow of easily accessible information, corporate openness and clarity are...

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As The Toy Association continues its aggressive advocacy and media campaign about the harmful impacts of tariffs on toys, members are encouraged to participate in an upcoming webinar that will detail how companies can apply for product-specific exclusions from the tariffs. “Tariffs on Toys: How to Apply for an Exclusion Request” will take place Wednesday, September 25 from 12 to 1 p.m. (Eastern). Registration is now open. “A 15 percent tariff on toys imported from China will go into effect December...

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Keeping track of your employees’ international business trips is a critical, often overlooked component of operating a multinational organization. Business trips are short-term expat assignments, and they are often wrongly dismissed as low- or no-risk, which can prove costly.   Many companies, for example, unknowingly trigger a taxable presence in another country by sending an employee on multiple business trips there, which can lead to fines and reputational damage.   Short-term expat assignments may also create personal tax, insurance and other obligations for...

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Millennials are often treated as if they are some special generation that requires extra care, but they are no different from the Woodstock idealists and those that came before them. The unifying characteristic of Millennials is they want to change, and the world and they want to do it NOW. Knowing this is essential to being able to manage Millennials as it is one of their best and worst characteristics. They are no different than the Baby Boomers of old...

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Today, Reavis Page Jump LLP takes center stage in the just-published 2019 "New York's Women Leaders in the Law" supplement to the New York Law Journal and New York Magazine. Each year, the supplement features the city's top women-led firms that are doing outstanding work and driving women's leadership in the legal field. Featured on this year's cover, RPJ gets premiere billing. "Women Leaders in the Law" further profiles the firm in an article entitled, "Client Focused, Community Enriched, Women Owned Firm Sets the Legal Bar," which highlights both our focus...

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Three forces are shaping the investment climate. The US-China trade conflict escalates at the start of September as both will raise tariffs on each other's goods and are threatening another round in mid-December (US 25% tariffs on $250 of Chinese imports will increase to 30% on October 1). Some third parties may benefit from the re-casting of supply chains, but the first impact is understood to weaken growth impulses. That is aggravating the slowdown already evident in several large...

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The retail industry is subject to constant change. Rapidly increasing customer demands, changes in production, supply chains, product placement and distribution channels as well as the pressure of worldwide competitors represent major challenges for companies. Challenges aside, the retail industry in Europe is very much alive, with e-commerce and digital advertising taking a significant part in its evolution. As there are many legal uncertainties that come along when retail companies decide to try new ways of advertising, distributing or...

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar held their first meeting as heads of government this morning in Dublin. A chilly morning set the scene for what was, at times, a tense meeting which comes at a critical period in Anglo-Irish relations. Building on a speech delivered last Thursday at a meeting of the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce, Varadkar was clear that in the event of a No Deal outcome, there would be no discussions on a future UK-EU...

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By Thompson Hine The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) formally announced on August 30th that an additional duty rate of 15 percent – not 10 percent as originally announced – began on Sept. 1, 2019, on products imported from China and covered under Annex A of the August 20, 2019 Federal Register notice concerning tariffs on imported Chinese products valued at approximately $300 billion (see also Trump and Trade Update of August 13, 2019). Products identified under Annex C will also be subject...

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