John Skelton quoted by Bloomberg BNA

John Skelton was quoted by Bloomberg BNA on September 12 on how a restaurant chain joined the Labor Department in a partnership to improve wage and hour compliance at its 27,000 franchised stores, creating a potential industry template but raising joint-employment issues. Skelton said that the many franchisors do have software programs that they require their franchisees to utilize, and certain aspects of those software programs have been looked at as evidence of control, especially with related to wage-and-hour- and employment-related aspects of the relationship.