{"id":57,"date":"2016-03-03T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:11:12","slug":"silent-partner-of-a-new-york-franchise-location-you-are-responsible-for-unpaid-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/03\/03\/silent-partner-of-a-new-york-franchise-location-you-are-responsible-for-unpaid-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSilent\u201d Partner of a New York Franchise Location: You ARE Responsible for Unpaid Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many franchise locations are operated by a privately held corporation.\u00a0 In New York,\u00a0the top 10 shareholders of a privately held New York corporation (determined by value of their interest) can be held liable for unpaid wages.\u00a0 Effective January 19, 2016, the top 10 shareholders of privately held corporations organized in other states can now be held similarly liable.\u00a0\u00a0LESSON:\u00a0A shareholder should not be \u201csilent\u201d regarding the operation of the business.<\/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 Many franchise locations are operated by a privately held corporation.\u00a0 In New York,\u00a0the top 10 shareholders of a privately held New York corporation (determined by value of their interest) can be held liable for unpaid wages.\u00a0 Effective January 19, 2016, the top 10 shareholders of privately held corporations organized in other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/03\/03\/silent-partner-of-a-new-york-franchise-location-you-are-responsible-for-unpaid-wages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cSilent\u201d Partner of a New York Franchise Location: You ARE Responsible for Unpaid Wages&#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":[148,41,146,147,140,145,8,139,142,141,144,143],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-corporations","tag-lesson","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-corporations","tag-partner","tag-shareholders","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-silent","tag-unpaid","tag-unpaid-wages","tag-wage","tag-wages"],"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\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}