McDonald’s Argues That It’s Not A Joint Employer Of Franchisees’ Workers

Mealey's (January 23, 2018, 1:27 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — McDonald’s Corp. and McDonald’s U.S.A. LLC (collectively, McDonald’s) are not joint employers under California’s wage-and-hour law as they don’t meet any one of the three tests sent out in Martinez v. Combs, 231 P.3d 259 (Cal. 2010), McDonald’s argues in its appellee brief filed on Jan. 19 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Guadalupe Salazar, et al. v. McDonald’s Corp., et al., No. 17-15673, 9th Cir.)....