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Having just completed the renewals for our franchise clients, we spent a lot of time talking with clients about the “joint employer” issue percolating through the National Labor Relations Board. Most of the revisions to franchise documents this year dealt with the issue of joint employer liability. For review, the NLRB is currently processing some cases that consider whether a franchisor exerts so much control over a franchisee’s business that the franchisor is the “joint employer” of the franchisee’s employees, liable for all aspects of the employer-employee relationship.
Generally, our review of franchise documents focused on clarifying the level of control a franchisor has over the franchisee’s operations, making sure that the franchisor’s control is directly related to the protection of the brand and clarifying to all of the roles of the various parties. Here are some examples:
We also discussed several operational issues to further clarify the precise relationship between the parties, such as:
The current controversy at the NLRB focused a discussion on good business practices in the franchise industry.
While some factors may change the outcome, the answer is generally no. In fact, “[n]o Michigan decision has ever held that a dedication of...
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