Op-Ed: A bad rule lets fast-food chains off the hook for workers' rights (via latimesopinion)
and disproportionately women and people of color — have protested their wages and workplace conditions as part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which raised many state and local minimum wages and delivered real gains to low-wage workers.
Most fast-food stores are franchised establishments, which means that each store is owned by a small-business operator. But these franchisees take detailed operating directions from big corporate franchisers like McDonald’s, Domino’s Pizza and other fast-food chains. Under the legal concept of “joint employment,” workers should be able to consider both the franchisee and the corporate franchiser their employers if they both control the conditions of work.
This reversal has been driven by a Republican-dominated NLRB seeking to remake labor law in an employer-friendly way. The agency, now dominated, is intensely politicized and has overturned many Obama-era rulings. Some courts have also ruled to limit the accountability of corporate franchisers. by the NLRB’s general counsel during the Obama administration and of Domino’s Pizza by the New York attorney general’s office found that these franchisers imposed highly detailed manuals on franchise store operators. These manuals often covered hiring, scheduling, employee appearance and work responsibilities.
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