Legal: FTC weighs in on 7-Eleven franchise fight

摘要

The Federal Trade Commission has weighed in on abstract】the legal question of whether 7-Eleven franchisees in Massachusetts should be considered company employees under state labor law. In a legal brief filed last week, FTC lawyers said that although the agency adopted a franchise rule in 1978, the provisions of the rule deal only with what sort of disclosures a franchisor must make to a franchisee.