{"id":2555,"date":"2024-09-11T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ma-court-finds-7-eleven-franchisees-fail-to-meet-definition-of-employee\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:16:00","slug":"ma-court-finds-7-eleven-franchisees-fail-to-meet-definition-of-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ma-court-finds-7-eleven-franchisees-fail-to-meet-definition-of-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma. Court Finds 7-Eleven Franchisees Fail to Meet Definition of Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a \u201ccontinuing saga,\u201d involving 7-Eleven franchise operators, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court answered a second certified question from a federal appellate court, finding that franchisees do not meet the definition of employees under the independent contractor statute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the second time, the Massachusetts high court weighed in on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/190625\/Dhananjay-Patel-v.-7-Eleven.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dhananjay Patel v. 7-Eleven<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a case filed by five plaintiff franchisees who operate 7-Eleven locations\u00a0who alleged that they were\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">misclassified as independent contractors, in violation of the Massachusetts independent contractor statute and wage and minimum wage laws, according to the opinion filed Sept. 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201ccontinuing saga,\u201d involving 7-Eleven franchise operators, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court answered a second certified question from a federal appellate court, finding that franchisees do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3367,143,2424,2461,3369,674,3368,1299],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-7eleven","tag-court","tag-definition","tag-employee","tag-fail","tag-finds","tag-franchisees","tag-meet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}