FedEx Latest Company Slammed Over "Independent" Employees — forbes.com

For years, companies have increasingly created structures and mechanisms that turned people who once might have been employees into independent contractors. but courts and regulators have begun to more critically examine such relationships. The franchise industry was just shaken when the National Labor Relations Board chief counsel said that McDonald’s is the joint employer of its franchisees’ workers. That potentially puts big corporations on the firing line for questionable management practices that the overall business relationship can encourage in franchisees.

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