where the franchisor must also comply with the FTC Franchise Rule.” The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the state’s independent contractor statute applied to the franchisor-franchisee ...

The FTC administers the federal franchise sales law, which requires all franchisors engaged in franchise sales in the United States to deliver a franchise disclosure document (FDD) to their ...

Independent contractors are individuals or entities that perform work for other individuals or entities, but are not employees of those individuals or entities. Whether a worker is an employee or ...

But to get that prize, those immortals must follow a set of rules and traditions that guide their actions. Some of the franchise's rules are less set in stone than others. A few were even thought ...

The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has been around for 33 years, and even though it's no stranger to evolving, certain rules ...

The Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed order against Qargo Coffee for failing to provide critical information required by the Franchise Rule, including one of its founder’s’ ties to ...

A Miami-based coffee company that allegedly sold 59 franchises in several states and collected more than $1.25 million in fees is being accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of violating the ...

I’ve written about more than enough franchisees who feel they were misled during the discovery process to know that it’s far too common. I’ve heard from those who’ve lost their ...

It would be almost impossible to overstate the sizable impact that George Miller’s work on the Mad Max franchise has had on changing the action genre. By combining elements of Westerns ...