NLRB announces new rule making it harder to challenge franchises for labor-law violations | TheHill

A newly-introduced National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regulation, set to take effect in April, would make it more difficult for workers to hold companies responsible for labor violations by individual franchises. The rule reverses an Obama-era NLRB policy that deemed companies like McDonald’s to be “joint employers” and thus responsible for franchise-level violations such as retaliatory firings for union organizing, The New York Times reported. ...
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/484689-nlrb-announces-new-rule-making-it-harder-to-challenge-franchises-for-labor