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Small, independent businesses are the backbone of the economy, but a new National Labor Relations Board ruling threatens the entrepreneurial spirit of small businesses across the country. The NLRB ruled in a landmark case&#8212;known as Browning-Ferris&#8212;that a company is now considered a &#8220;joint employer&#8221; when it harnesses the use of specialized services and administers any level of direct or indirect control over contracted employees. &#8220;In other words, if my company hires a custodial service to clean our facility&#8212;or security guards or any kind of subcontractor&#8212;I am now held liable for the labor practices of the vendor we choose to perform this specific services,&#8221; said Michael Cadorette, a small-business owner and employer in Biddeford, Maine. Cadorette explained in <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/30/maine-voices-new-federal-rule-spells-trouble-for-small-businesses-that-hire-outside-services/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=new-federal-rule-trouble-for-small-businesses-2778" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Portland Press Herald</a> that the NLRB&#8217;s new joint-employer rule will undermine the operations of employers by joining them at the hip with larger companies instead of allowing them to independently control their own labor practices. &#8220;In light of this decision, small-business owners, general contractors and franchisee businesses now become exposed to a host of restrictions that threaten the balance of our business goals and workforce,&#8221; Cadorette added. &#8220;Whether we identify an outside service as a core function of our business or not, the NLRB is deciding that we suddenly have to completely reconsider our business relationships, and potentially even bring all non-core functions in-house.&#8221; <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/30/maine-voices-new-federal-rule-spells-trouble-for-small-businesses-that-hire-outside-services/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=new-federal-rule-trouble-for-small-businesses-2778" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read the original article here.</a>

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