Great. So now there isn’t even that option to pay the workers a government-mandated “minimum wage”.
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Wow. I guess the whole franchise model just went kaput. Does this mean that the corporate liability for an employee just went from the franchisee to the corporation? I am sure that all of the franchise operators—from fast food to hotels—are going to love that.
They idiots in Obama’s government are Chicago thugs at their finest. This guy looks like a first class tool.
And McDonalds and other such outfits will simply convert to burger making bots (which already exist) instead.
He did not give them card check, so Obama owed the unions bigtime. He had to give them this in order to keep his giant cash machine humming.
Somebody get a rope.
So what is the appeal procedure for all the fast food chains to oppose this in court? Der Fuhrer ist running amok.
Everybody will pay this fresh inflation tax.
When Bush was president, a position at a fast food place was a “McJob” according to Polosi. Now it is supposed to be a long time career choice where it will be next to impossible to fire a worthless employee.
A whole lot of executive orders and fascist decrees are going to have to be nullified in January 2017.
Anyone who thought the average McDonald’s was overstaffed will no longer have that opinion.
Doesn’t this have huge implications? Does this turn franchise business law on its head, apart from the issues dealing with employees?
The franchise model is based on each franchise being individually owned and operated.
If we’re saying that this is not the case anymore with employees, then does a franchise owner really own his/her business? Is he/she really a contractor of the corporate parent????
This decision has huge implications for other areas of business law.
And to think, we are truly into government by decree, government by bureaucratic decision, not government by laws passed by Congress or the states .
Here comes automated service.
Chick-fil-a is franchised.
In-n-out is not.
So what happens if McDonalds decides to name all of their restaurants owned by a franchisee named Gaylord as McDONALD’S/gaylord? Don’t laugh. This is exactly what the megasized Japanese corporation which I used to work for did with a unit of the company which specialized in making internal documents to avoid the union scale benefits. They did the same thing with a number of other company units.
For getting very basic orders, the past several times we have eaten at fast food places, the bill has been at least $15 or more for two people.
Even with the high prices on groceries, one could easily get enough ground beef, buns, frozen French fries to feed 4-6 people for $15. Sometimes convenience is worth a little extra, but if you have a family group, they are not going to McDonald’s or Burger King and drop $10-12 per person or more just for burgers and fries.
Millions of fast food workers are going to end up unemployed, IMHO.
Expect robotic fast food in no time!
