On March 24, 2022, in the case of Patel v. 7-Eleven, Inc. (No. SJC-13166), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ruled that whether a franchisee is ...

Massachusetts has long been among the states offering the most worker-friendly wage and hour laws in the country. The flip-side of that coin is a fair amount of expense, administrative burden, and ...