{"id":49,"date":"2016-05-09T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:10:05","slug":"more-states-enact-laws-franchisors-are-not-joint-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/05\/09\/more-states-enact-laws-franchisors-are-not-joint-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"More States Enact Laws: Franchisors Are Not \u201cJoint Employers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eight states passed legislation prohibiting a franchisor from being considered an employer or co-employer of franchisee employees, including: Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Utah and Georgia. Similar legislative efforts were introduced in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 2016, Georgia is the most recent state to enact such a law. Georgia\u2019s \u201cProtecting Small Businesses Act\u201d amends Georgia\u2019s Labor and Industrial Relations Code to provide that neither a franchisee nor a franchisee\u2019s employee is considered an employee of a franchisor for \u201cany purpose.\u201d The Act is effective on January 1, 2017. Like other states\u2019 new laws, the Act responds to the dramatic 2015 ruling of the National Labor Relations Board in <em>NLRB v. Browning-Ferris Industries<\/em>, which impacts when a franchisor could be found to be a joint employer of its franchisee\u2019s employees.<\/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 Eight states passed legislation prohibiting a franchisor from being considered an employer or co-employer of franchisee employees, including: Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Utah and Georgia. Similar legislative efforts were introduced in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia. On May 3, 2016, Georgia is the most recent state &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/05\/09\/more-states-enact-laws-franchisors-are-not-joint-employers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More States Enact Laws: Franchisors Are Not \u201cJoint Employers\u201d&#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":[80,61,81,23,76,87,78,77,94,91,82,89,79,83,84,8,92,90,88,85,86,93],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-act","tag-california","tag-colorado","tag-franchisee","tag-georgia","tag-indiana","tag-labor","tag-labor-and-industrial-relations-code","tag-legislation","tag-louisiana","tag-massachusetts","tag-michigan","tag-national-labor-relations-board","tag-oklahoma","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-utah","tag-vermont","tag-virginia","tag-wisconsin"],"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\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}