Labor/Employment
Sep. 11, 2014
State Supreme Court gets it right in Domino's case
Had the court allowed the case to go to trial, every franchisor doing business in California would have had shifted to it unlimited potential liability for employment-related claims. By Anthony J. Oncidi
The state Supreme Court's recent ruling in Patterson v. Domino's Pizza LLC, 2014 DJDAR 12005 (Aug. 28, 2014) is remarkable more for what it didn't do than what it did. Had the state Supreme Court allowed the case against Domino's to go to trial, every franchisor doing business in California would have had shifted to it unlimited potential liability for employment-related claims from workers it neither controlled nor even knew....
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