Media

October 23rd, 2015

Coalition to Save Local Businesses: Policy changes should in fact go through Congress

Coalition to Save Local Businesses Executive Director Michael Layman responded recent comments and reiterated that policy changes should in fact go through Congress and not the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): “These comments show how misguided policy makers are about franchising and all small businesses operating in the modern day…

National Labor Relations Board ruling hurts businesses

By Tanner and Robin Halton from Statesman Journal We are small business owners in Salem, employing about 14 people. We focus most of our time on our employees and the quality of service we deliver to our 8,000 Planet Fitness members — not on federal labor policy coming out…

Letter: Sens. Hoeven, Heitkamp listening to North Dakota’s small businesses

By Clara Stokeland from Fargo I recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to share my small-business story. I wanted to explain why it’s so vital to the viability of millions of small businesses and the 780,000 franchise businesses in America for Congress to reinstate the very successful “joint employer”…