Mealey's (December 17, 2020, 10:09 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — A lower court misapplied federal antitrust law in dismissing a proposed class complaint challenging an agreement between Burger King corporate and its franchisees not to recruit or hire each other’s employees, the federal government tells the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an amicus curiae brief filed Dec. 7. The brief follows an appellant brief filed by Burger King franchise employees who maintain that the agreement led to depressed workers’ wages....