Sentence examples for franchise workers from inspiring English sources

The board did not rule, but instead accused McDonald's of being a "joint employer" of franchise workers.

Corporate parents may have to take responsibility for franchise workers, giving a big lift to the Fight for $15 movement.

Last year, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board argued otherwise, accusing McDonald's of being a "joint employer" of franchise workers.

Unions are delighted: they would rather deal with a single big firm than many small ones.There is some logic to the idea: McDonald's does not hire and fire franchise workers, but it exercises tight control over what they do, how they dress and their working conditions.

But Beth Ross, a lawyer for Leonard Carder, which represented the California drivers, thinks it will affect countless other businesses that have copied FedEx's model, in delivery, appliance installation and limousine services.Regulatory and court actions may force firms to recraft their relationships with contract and franchise workers, but probably not to scrap them.

"This is a great day for Seattle's fast food franchise workers.

It was this reasoning that led Bentham and James Mill to advocate democratic reforms that included extending the franchise to workers and peasant farmers.

As well as the closures, job losses and franchising, Post Office workers also face a threat to their "simply unaffordable" pensions.

The food is then sent to franchises, where workers assemble the ingredients.

In 2018, a federal circuit court found that Jani-King's franchise model misclassified workers as independent contractors.

Disraeli nurtured the party's support among the working class by extending the franchise to industrial workers in the Reform Bill of 1867.