A rule resetting how the National Labor Relations Board determines if a company has to negotiate with workers in franchise locations is scheduled to take effect Feb. 26.
A franchisee with stores in Tucson is hoping Congress will act to keep the current rule made during the Trump administration. Wes Snyder is an accountant who owns a handful of FASTSIGNS franchises, including two stores in Tucson. Some of his Arizona employees have earned a stake in the franchise.
Snyder said future staff can't be as successful if government action makes him into a middle manager for a conglomerate.
“My entire team is just employees of a larger company. That’s what this joint-employer rule kind of looks like to me," Snyder said.
The NLRB determines if a company and franchises are a joint-employer.
The board said the pending analysis-standard is driven by whether a company has power to control at least one essential condition of employment for franchise workers.
