Motion To Add Plaintiffs Denied In Classification Suit By Jani-King Franchisees

Mealey's (June 25, 2019, 12:25 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California on June 20 denied a motion for leave to amend a complaint in a nearly decade-old lawsuit to add current franchisees as plaintiffs alongside former franchisees to allow for adequate representation of a proposed class accusing a janitorial service franchisor of using its franchising system to actually misclassify employees as independent contractors (Alejandro Juarez, et al. v. Jani-King of California, Inc., et al., No. 09-3495, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103632)....