McDonald’s, Arby’s, Other Chains to End No-Poach Hiring Rules (1)

McDonald’s Corp., Jimmy John’s LLC, and five other restaurant chains “will immediately end” a requirement that franchisees not hire workers from other franchisees within the same brand, Bob Ferguson, Washington state’s attorney general, said July 12.

The seven companies have 557 restaurants in Washington and an estimated 26,697 locations nationwide, Ferguson said. They will strip no-poach clauses from their franchise agreements in Washington and stop enforcing them nationwide, he said. The other companies are Arby’s, Auntie Anne’s, Buffalo Wild Wings Inc., Carl’s Jr., and Cinnabon.

A no-poach clause bars a franchisee from hiring workers from another one of the brand’s ...