{"id":43,"date":"2016-08-16T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T17:46:44","slug":"dol-unveiled-alliance-with-franchise-restaurant-to-improve-wage-and-hour-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/08\/16\/dol-unveiled-alliance-with-franchise-restaurant-to-improve-wage-and-hour-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"DOL Unveiled Alliance with Franchise Restaurant to Improve Wage-and-Hour Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled its alliance with a sandwich franchisor to help improve the franchisee owners\u2019 compliance with wage-and-hour laws. Under this agreement, the franchisor agreed to share data and swap ideas about promoting compliance with labor laws and co-developing training materials for distribution to franchisee owners. The agreement also includes a commitment to \u201cexplore ways to use technology to support franchisee compliance, such as building alerts into the payroll and scheduling platform that [the franchisor] offers as a service to its franchisees.\u201d WARNING: Agreements like these may support a joint employer determination. Whether this agreement is truly a \u201crecipe for success\u201d is in the fine details.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sheilarafterywiggins.html\">Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/a>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/newark.html\">Newark office<\/a>, handles matters involving complex commercial disputes, insurance defense, coverage disputes, financial fraud, and attorney ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled its alliance with a sandwich franchisor to help improve the franchisee owners\u2019 compliance with wage-and-hour laws. Under this agreement, the franchisor agreed to share data and swap ideas about promoting compliance with labor laws and co-developing training materials for distribution to franchisee owners. The agreement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/08\/16\/dol-unveiled-alliance-with-franchise-restaurant-to-improve-wage-and-hour-compliance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DOL Unveiled Alliance with Franchise Restaurant to Improve Wage-and-Hour Compliance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,28,24,20,19,23,22,26,29,31,30,8,21,25],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-agreement","tag-agreements","tag-compliance","tag-dol","tag-franchise","tag-franchisee","tag-franchisor","tag-labor-laws","tag-payroll","tag-scheduling","tag-scheduling-platforms","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-wage-and-hour-laws"],"authors":[{"term_id":191,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}