McDonald’s Wins Battle With Labor, Avoids Joint Employer Liability with Franchises December 13, 2019 By Hassan Kanu McDonald’s Corp. has won a huge victory in a multiyear legal battle over whether it should share responsibility for alleged...
Employee Lawsuit Claims McDonald’s Fails to Address Sexual Harassment November 13, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner and Jonathan Stempel Mc Donald’s Corp. was sued on Tuesday by workers in Michigan who accused the fast-food chain of allowing pervasive sexual...
Labor Department Moves to Ease Franchisor Liability April 2, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday issued a proposal that would make it more difficult to prove companies are...
U.S. Labor Judge Nixes McDonald’s Deal to Avoid Joint Employer Tag July 18, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner A judge with a U.S. labor agency on Tuesday rejected McDonald’s Corp.’s proposed settlement of a major case on whether...
Trump Labor Chief Nominee Puzder Dodges Disability Bias Suit for Now February 13, 2017 By Amanda Becker Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, the controversial business leader expected to undergo a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing next week, will...
Court Hears Appeal of Expanded Joint Employer Liability Rule June 8, 2016 By Daniel Wiessner and Robert Iafolla A California waste management company at the center of a closely watched case told a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday...
How Employer Joint Liability Is Changing February 18, 2016 By Andrea Wells Businesses known for their uniforms are worried about lawyers in business suits in the wake of a change in the...
Franchises Ask Supreme Court to Hear Seattle Minimum Wage January 27, 2016 A business group said on Monday it is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower-court...
Browning-Ferris Files Appeal of NLRB’s Joint Employer Liability Ruling January 25, 2016 By Robert Iafolla A California waste management company has launched a legal challenge to a new U.S. labor board standard for “joint employment”...
U.S. Labor Department Issues Joint Employer Liability Rules January 21, 2016 By Robert Iafolla More U.S. companies could be classified as “joint employers” of workers employed by a staffing agency or contractor and held...