{"id":1821,"date":"2024-07-17T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftc-oversight-of-franchisors-should-be-on-case-by-case-basis-franchise-lawyers-say\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T22:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T22:15:26","slug":"ftc-oversight-of-franchisors-should-be-on-case-by-case-basis-franchise-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ftc-oversight-of-franchisors-should-be-on-case-by-case-basis-franchise-lawyers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Oversight of Franchisors Should Be on Case-by-Case Basis, Franchise Lawyers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission\u2019s comprehensive approach to address concerns about franchisors exploiting their control over franchisees would be better served through case-by-case oversight of the industry, franchise lawyers said this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a policy statement last week, the FTC warned franchisors against imposing nondisparagement agreements on franchisees that limit or could be perceived as restricting their freedom to speak to regulators. The agency also\u00a0released guidance calling on franchisors to comply with the FTC\u2019s Franchise Rule, which requires them to disclose all fees to franchisees in a Franchise Disclosure Document.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission\u2019s comprehensive approach to address concerns about franchisors exploiting their control over franchisees would be better served through case-by-case oversight of the industry, franchise lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2550,2549,1939,2548,352,7,2547],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-basis","tag-casebycase","tag-franchise","tag-franchisors","tag-ftc","tag-lawyers","tag-oversight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}