August 15, 2019
Washington state's attorney general is forging ahead with a campaign against no-poach provisions in franchise agreements, cutting deals last week with four more chains to eliminate the practice, but with few courts weighing in so far, it is unclear which legal standard for judging the provisions will prevail.
July 30, 2019
A Michigan federal judge has tossed a former Little Caesars manager's suit alleging that the pizza chain's franchise agreements violate antitrust law, after refusing to apply a strict legal standard to provisions preventing the chain's franchisees from hiring each other's workers.