{"id":56,"date":"2016-03-10T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:11:02","slug":"submit-input-appeals-court-hears-the-franchisesubcontractor-joint-employer-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/03\/10\/submit-input-appeals-court-hears-the-franchisesubcontractor-joint-employer-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit Input: Appeals Court Hears the Franchise\/Subcontractor Joint Employer Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The joint employer controversy flared-up against\u00a0franchisors and\u00a0companies that subcontract\u00a0jobs as to whether their\u00a0actions\u2014controlling\u00a0the work conditions and tasks of the franchisees\/subcontractor&#8217;s employees\u2014render the franchisor\/business a joint employer of those employees. OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT\u00a0INPUT: Browning-Ferris Industries appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. the NLRB\u2019s groundbreaking 2015 ruling. Consider submitting\u00a0\u201cfriend of the court\u201d papers in the appeal\u00a0on behalf of your company or industry\u00a0group.<\/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 joint employer controversy flared-up against\u00a0franchisors and\u00a0companies that subcontract\u00a0jobs as to whether their\u00a0actions\u2014controlling\u00a0the work conditions and tasks of the franchisees\/subcontractor&#8217;s employees\u2014render the franchisor\/business a joint employer of those employees. OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT\u00a0INPUT: Browning-Ferris Industries appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. the NLRB\u2019s groundbreaking 2015 ruling. Consider submitting\u00a0\u201cfriend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/03\/10\/submit-input-appeals-court-hears-the-franchisesubcontractor-joint-employer-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Submit Input: Appeals Court Hears the Franchise\/Subcontractor Joint Employer Issue&#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":[132,137,136,19,8,134,133,138,135],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appeals-court","tag-browning-ferris-industries","tag-d-c","tag-franchise","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-subcontractor","tag-submit-input","tag-u-s-court-of-appeals","tag-washington-d-c"],"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}