Does the 360 Painting System include personnel policies or procedures?
360_Painting Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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Pre-Opening Obligations
Before you open your Business, we will:
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- designate your Protected Territory, as further described in Item 12. (FA Section 2.1 and Exhibit C-1);
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- provide an initial training program. This training is described in detail later in this Item. (FA Section 13.1);
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- provide to you, on loan, one copy of the Brand Standards Manual, which includes (among other things) employment applications, interview questions, job descriptions, and suggested pay scales. Our current Brand Standards Manual is 58 pages long in hard copy format and includes links to approximately 80 hours of video content and a dynamic amount of print copy that changes as necessary to support franchisees. The Table of Contents of our Brand Standards Manual is attached to this Disclosure Document as Exhibit D. (FA Section 7). Note that our System does not include any personnel policies or procedures or security-related policies or procedures that we (at our option) may make available to you in the Brand Standards Manual or otherwise for your optional use. You will determine to what extent, if any, these policies and procedures might apply to your operations of your Business. We neither dictate nor control labor or employment matters for franchisees and their employees and we are not responsible for the safety and security of your Business employees or customers. You will agree in your Franchise Agreement that we are not joint employers of your employees and other personnel. We do not and will not share or codetermine any of your employees' essential terms and conditions of employment. More specifically, in no case do we have any authority to determine or set your employees': (1) wages, benefits, and other compensation; (2) hours of work and scheduling; (3) the assignment of duties to be performed; (4) the supervision of the performance of duties; (5) work rules and directions governing the manner, means, and methods of the performance of duties and the grounds for discipline; (6) the tenure of employment, including hiring and discharge; and/or (7) working conditions related to the safety and health of employees.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 27–38)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 360 Painting Franchise Disclosure Document, the 360 Painting System does not include any personnel policies or procedures. However, the Brand Standards Manual, provided on loan to the franchisee, includes employment applications, interview questions, job descriptions, and suggested pay scales.
360 Painting does not dictate or control labor or employment matters for franchisees and their employees. The franchisee determines the extent to which these policies and procedures apply to their business operations. 360 Painting is not responsible for the safety and security of the franchisee's business employees or customers.
The Franchise Agreement specifies that 360 Painting is not a joint employer of the franchisee's employees and other personnel. 360 Painting does not share or codetermine any of the employees’ essential terms and conditions of employment. The franchisee has sole authority to determine all employees' essential terms and conditions of employment, including wages, benefits, work hours, job duties, supervision, work rules, tenure, and working conditions.