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Mar 27, 2017

5 Ways to Address the Legal Risks of Joint Employment

Board room discussion

Franchisors must exercise caution in how they support franchisees on the labor front. In recent years, the franchise world has been upended by an aggressive, anti-franchise, NLRB. 2014 saw the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issue a series of rulings that held that franchisors might be the joint employers of their franchisees’ employees. A franchise is a trademark license that extends use of a brand while shifting costs of overhead such as labor to an independent contractor. The idea that the employees of a franchise may also be the employees of the franchisor defeats the purpose and value of the… Read more