I don’t think it will have much effect and will probably be repealed by the next administration without much comment or by Congress who will be told that unless it goes away their careers are over. “You may wish to familiarize yourself with Monster.com Mr. Representative.”
New types of organizations may result but I think this will not work out the way they intend.
It is also a great argument for reducing the NRLB’s budget to about 40% of what it is now. Too much mischief being promulgated by this bureau.
I don’t believe that we have ever had an administration so determined to eliminate jobs as this one. I don’t think they are familiar with the low cost of automation of restaurant operations. McDonald’s has had a working robotic model for twenty years or so and the costs of automation have plummeted.
I’m sure it will be taken to court and it is clearly a violation of franchise contract law, but I don’t trust the court system on anything. I certainly hope it is repealed by the next administration but won’t be if a democrat is in office.
This is another example of these massive activist bureaucracies furthering their own agendas. They need to be cut down to size or eliminated.
From a franchise forum:
“The NLRB has stepped into an interesting posture. As an administrative agency, they are actually overstepping their bounds by defining what are the requirements of brand protection as exercised since 1947 by the Lanham Act and enforced by a different agency of the government. In a more routinely run Congress and administration this would not be an issue because Congress would immediately step in and put a stop to their over reach on their authority. With this Congress and administration I doubt that will happen.”
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