October 19th, 2015
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”…October 13th, 2015
Franchisor isn’t reassured when told NLRB will decide ‘joint employer’ issue on case-by-case basis
By Kent Hoover, Washington Bureau Chief, The Business Journals A Senate hearing is not a usual venue for legal advice, but a labor attorney tried to reassure a franchisor there that the National Labor Relations Board would not consider her to be a “joint employer” of employees who work…October 13th, 2015