~Rocktar~
08-31-2014, 09:38 PM
Obama Administration, Trial Lawyers Mount Attack On Franchise System
The decades-old franchise system survived a potentially fatal attack in California last week when the state’s highest court rejected an attempt to find Domino's Pizza liable for alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor at a franchisee’s store. Had the court ruled the other way, the entire legal structure separating franchise companies from the independent businesses that operate retail outlets would have been in jeopardy, since businesses frequently adjust their national policies to adapt to the law in the largest state.
The Obama administration, aided by trial lawyers, is still trying to undermine the structure, however. The Democratic-controlled National Labor Relations Board, in two high-profile cases, is trying to change the law to make franchisors “joint employers” of anybody working in a franchisee store. Trial lawyers, meanwhile, continue to try and pierce legal wall separating the two so they can tap the deep pockets of corporate parents, especially when they are trying to convince juries to award punitive damages. . . .
Just another attack on those who earn to try and take from those who work to give to those who claim victimhood.
Emphasis added is mine.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/08/31/obama-administration-trial-lawyers-mount-attack-on-franchise-system/
The decades-old franchise system survived a potentially fatal attack in California last week when the state’s highest court rejected an attempt to find Domino's Pizza liable for alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor at a franchisee’s store. Had the court ruled the other way, the entire legal structure separating franchise companies from the independent businesses that operate retail outlets would have been in jeopardy, since businesses frequently adjust their national policies to adapt to the law in the largest state.
The Obama administration, aided by trial lawyers, is still trying to undermine the structure, however. The Democratic-controlled National Labor Relations Board, in two high-profile cases, is trying to change the law to make franchisors “joint employers” of anybody working in a franchisee store. Trial lawyers, meanwhile, continue to try and pierce legal wall separating the two so they can tap the deep pockets of corporate parents, especially when they are trying to convince juries to award punitive damages. . . .
Just another attack on those who earn to try and take from those who work to give to those who claim victimhood.
Emphasis added is mine.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/08/31/obama-administration-trial-lawyers-mount-attack-on-franchise-system/