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Inforum: Short-sighted NLRB rule could leave franchise owners legally vulnerable

There are roughly 10 million women-owned businesses in the United States, and collectively they’re growing faster than other small firms. It’s fitting that October celebrates this success with Women’s Small Business Month. All told, women-owned companies employ an estimated eight million workers and drive $1.2 trillion in sales every year.

WSJ Editorial: A Joint-Employer McDouble

The National Labor Relations Board has given unions and plaintiff attorneys a cache of weapons to target businesses. Now they’ve been handed a “two-barreled joint employer shotgun,” as plaintiff attorney Michael Rubin crowed about the certification of his class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s. Federal Judge James Donato recently allowed four plaintiffs…

Fox Editorial: The Joint Employer Standard Still Causing Confusion

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Browning-Ferris decision, which radically redefined employment rules for businesses nationwide. Under the new definition, which overturned 30 years of precedent, a company may be held liable for labor violations by other employers they contract with, by merely…