McDonald’s Told It Has Responsibility Over Store Workers
Any time the government regulates long-entrenched business models to fundamentally change their structure, it makes it more difficult for the businesses to function because it changes their underlying cost and operational structure.
Making McDonald’s liable for its franchisees is reasonable and one would think they would want to anyway as it is their reputation on the line. But, if the law says they have no say, then don’t penalize them.