December 9th, 2015
If contractors are employees, small businesses will suffer
By Mark Hagar In the excitement of every political season, we hear the constant refrain from liberals and conservatives alike – small business is the engine that drives the U.S. economy. And the statistics provide evidence to support those claims. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the 28 million small…December 8th, 2015
Spending bill could give franchises relief from NLRB’s ‘joint employer’ rule
The franchise industry is lobbying Congress to use a must-pass government spending bill to force the NLRB to delay enforcing its new “joint employer” standard for at least 10 months. In a 3-2 decision in August, the NLRB ruled that companies are joint employers of workers if they share control…December 8th, 2015