Merry Maids and two related franchisors extricated themselves from a wage and hour class action brought by over 180 home-cleaners in California, after a California federal judge ruled they couldn’t be held liable in light of a recent Ninth Circuit opinion.
The franchisors can’t be held liable under an ostensible agency theory following the Oct. 2019 decision in Salazar v. McDonald’s Corp.. The court here had previously decided that they weren’t joint employers, either, so there’s no longer any viable theory of liability, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California said Jan. 31. The court granted ...
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