Mealey's (July 9, 2018, 9:00 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Jimmy John’s LLC and its other corporate entities (collectively, Jimmy John’s) are not joint employers of the franchisees’ workers, an Illinois federal judge ruled June 14, granting Jimmy John’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of joint employer in a collective action by assistant store managers (ASMs) who allege that they were misclassified as exempt from receiving overtime (In Re: Jimmy John’s Overtime Litigation, Nos. 14-5509, 15-1681 and 15-6010, N.D. Ill., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107157)....