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IFA PLEASED WITH NLRB DECISION NOT TO APPEAL COURT’S DECISION ON POSTER RULE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2014—The International Franchise Association President & CEO Steve Caldeira released the following statement today regarding the decision by the National Labor Relations Board not to petition the Supreme Court to review the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision invalidating the NLRB’s employee rights poster requirement. The deadline to petition the court was Jan. 3, 2014.
“The IFA is pleased that the NLRB has declined to challenge the appeals court’s decision to invalidate the employee rights poster requirement. The NLRB was wise not to appeal a decision that swiftly and unambiguously rejected the Board’s aggressive overstepping of its authority in requiring an unbalanced workers’ rights notice that deprives employers of their free speech rights and misguides the workers it was designed to inform.
“This effectively sends a strong message that all regulations should be fair and balanced and protect the rights of both workers and employers.”
IFA is a member of the management committee of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which was a party to the lawsuit challenging the poster requirement, and works to ensure balanced workplace policy and protect employees’ rights to make informed, coercion-free decisions about association in the workplace.
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The International Franchise Association is the world’s oldest and largest organization representing franchising worldwide. Celebrating over 50 years of excellence, education and advocacy, IFA works through its government relations and public policy, media relations and educational programs to protect, enhance and promote franchising. Through its media awareness campaign highlighting the theme, Franchising: Building Local Businesses, One Opportunity at a Time, IFA promotes the economic impact of the more than 825,000 franchise establishments, which support nearly 18 million jobs and $2.1 trillion of economic output for the U.S. economy. IFA members include franchise companies in over 300 different business format categories, individual franchisees and companies that support the industry in marketing, law and business development.
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