Is Franchising In the Crosshairs of Federal Regulators and Legislators?

The Feds may be targeting franchising. In September 2020, Rohit Chopra, one of the five commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), declared on Twitter that “[franchise] regulators must stop unfair, deceptive, and discriminatory practices that target franchisees and their employees,” and three House of Representative members wrote a letter to the Chairman of the FTC urging the agency to step up investigations of franchisor practices as a result of recent abuses by a relatively small...
By: Lewitt Hackman

Lewitt Hackman