NLRB Seeks to Rewrite Legal Standard to More Easily Find Joint Employer...
Consistent with the Board’s recent rulings, the NLRB General Counsel wants to overturn decades of legal precedent. The latest target is expanding the joint employer standard in an effort to increase...
View ArticleDomino’s Pizza Franchisee’s Arbitration Agreement Violates the NLRA
A Domino’s Pizza franchisee violated the National Labor Relations Act by maintaining an arbitration agreement barring workers from bringing class claims, despite the argument that an opt-out provision...
View ArticleSubway Franchise Employees Vote In Favor of Union Validating Union’s Efforts...
Employees of a Subway franchise in Bloomsbury, N.J. voted 8-5 to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) Local 108. While this is great fodder for unions to hark the success of...
View ArticleFast Food Workers’ Corporate Campaign against McDonald’s Includes...
McDonald’s workers recently filed complaints with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 19 cities alleging burns from popping grease, lack of protective equipment, and other...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: SEIU Befriending Franchisees
We have reported on the SEIU’s campaign for $15-an-hour wages for fast food workers. Seeking to have franchisees pay nearly twice the minimum wage for historically minimum wage work is not the way to...
View ArticleImpact of Subway’s “Voluntary Agreement” with the US DOL on Joint Employment
Doctor’s Associates, Inc., which is the owner and franchisor for the Subway sandwich restaurant chain entered into a Voluntary Agreement with the US Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division “as...
View ArticleCampaigning to Congress to Reverse NLRB Joint Employer Ruling Started
More than 50 businesses and trade groups are asking Congress to pass legislation to repeal the National Labor Board’s new joint employer standard. As a reminder, in August 2015, the NLRB ruled that...
View ArticleOhio’s New Joint Employer Law Avoids Browning-Ferris Application to Some...
The issue started with the NLRB’s 2015 decision in Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186, which overturned 30 years of precedent and established that employers could be held...
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