Who is responsible for recruiting, hiring, and training personnel to operate a Basecamp Fitness studio?
Basecamp_Fitness Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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Personnel.
You are responsible for recruiting, hiring and training sufficient personnel to operate your Basecamp Studio.
You must, at your cost, conduct criminal background checks on each employee (unless prohibited by law) before they begin providing any services in your Basecamp Studio.
The people you retain to work in your Basecamp Studio will be your agents and employees.
They are not our agents or employees and we are not a joint-employer of these persons.
It will be up to you to determine who to retain, how many people to retain (subject to any minimum staffing requirements we may prescribe), how you compensate these people, terms of employment and working conditions for your employees, when and how to discipline the people you hire, and when and how to terminate the people you hire.
However, you must at all times comply with all applicable employment laws.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 61–62)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Basecamp Fitness's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the franchisee is responsible for recruiting, hiring, and training personnel to operate their Basecamp Fitness studio. Specifically, the franchisee must conduct criminal background checks on each employee before they begin providing services, unless prohibited by law.
The FDD states that individuals working at the Basecamp Fitness studio are the franchisee's agents and employees, not Basecamp Fitness's. The franchisee decides who to hire, how many people to hire (subject to any minimum staffing requirements Basecamp Fitness may prescribe), how to compensate them, their terms of employment and working conditions, how to discipline them, and when and how to terminate their employment.
Basecamp Fitness does provide initial and ongoing training programs, such as the Coaches Training Course, that the franchisee's personnel must complete to satisfaction. The franchisee is responsible for all costs associated with their employees attending these training programs, including travel, room and board, and salaries. The franchisee does not pay a separate training fee for fitness coaches attending the Coaches Training Course within the first 12 months after the studio opens, but beginning in month 13, they will be charged the then-current per attendee training fee.