Fast Food Workers Ask 9th Circuit To Find McDonald’s, Franchisees Joint Employers

Mealey's (October 19, 2017, 10:49 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A district court erred when it ruled that no reasonable juror could find that McDonald’s Corp. and McDonald’s U.S.A. LLC, along with franchisees, are joint employers of fast food crew members under California’s wage-and-hour law, a class of workers argue in their appellant brief filed Oct. 2 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Guadalupe Salazar, et al. v. McDonald’s Corp., et al., No. 17-15673, 9th Cir.)....