NLRB shift puts restaurants everywhere at risk
September 14, 2015
The National Labor Relations Board’s abrupt change in direction on its “joint-employer” standard is a serious threat to the growth potential for restaurants and other businesses across the country. Decisions by the board in two recent cases—one involving a major restaurant brand—mean that restaurants could be held responsible for labor practices of the companies they do business with, such as vendors, contractors and staffing firms. And franchisors can be held responsible by the NLRB for labor practices of their franchisees, even though franchisees make the labor-related decisions
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