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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Apr 30, 2009
Temporary Employees Franchise Improvement Act of 2009 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in determining whether a franchisee is affiliated with a franchisor in the temporary employee services industry (industry), to: (1) continue to apply historically considered affiliation factors; (2) promulgate necessary rules and regulations to determine affiliation in a manner consistent with the Small Business Act; and (3) consider the processing of payroll and billing by a franchisor as customary and common practice in the industry that does not provide probative weight on affiliation, to the extent that temporary staffing personnel are interviewed, hired, trained, assigned, and subject to discharge by the franchisee.
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Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8] · D–IL
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare .
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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