Is Franchising In the Crosshairs of Federal Regulators and Legislators?
By EsqSocial Corporation 28/01/21
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