Who is responsible for paying the salaries of personnel working for a Caring Transitions franchise?

ertime laws or exemptions;

and has no authority to do any of the foregoing.

• (c) Employee Payments. Franchisee shall pay all salaries for its personnel. Franchisee is responsible for all costs and overhead associated with the conduct of the Franchise except as otherwise specifically provided in this agreement. Franchisee is responsible for the payment of all wages, commissions, bonuses, fringe benefits, insurance premiums, payroll taxes and other items required by applicable law, if any, to all personnel working for or hired by Franchisee, whether classified as employees or independent contractors. Without prejudice to the foregoing, Franchisee shall make all statutory deductions and contributions and is solely responsible for complying—and shall comply—with all applicable laws relating to the employment of its employees, including all wage and hour laws, the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors, and the classification of employees as exempt or non-exempt under applicable minimum wage and overtime laws. Employment of Franchisee's employees will be at Franchisee's own risk and expense and its employees will not have any claims against Franchisor for wages, commissions, bonuses, fringe benefits, insurance premiums, social welfare contributions, or any other form of compensation (including severance compensation).
• (d) Training. Franchisee shall establish a training program for all of Franchisee's employees. The training program must meet all applicable laws, professional license requirements, and Franchisor's standards and training guidelines as set out in the Operations Manual and other written materials provided by Franchisor upon request. Upon request, Franchisor shall advise and assist Franchisee in connection with the development of Franchisee's employee training program, but Franchisee retains all responsibility for and control over all training for its employees.

7.25 Data Protection.

• (a) In this section , "process" and/or "processing" in relation to any data means collecting, obtaining, recording or holding the data or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the data including:

  • 1. organization, adaptation or alteration;
  • (2) retrieval, consultation or use;
  • (3) disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available; or
  • (4) alignment, combination, blocking, erasure or destruction.

• (b) Franchisee shall process any that may be collected or acquired by Franchisee, whether from clients, employees or other sources ("Franchise Data") strictly in accordance with data protection laws that may apply from time to time during the course of this agreement and, in particular:

• (1) only insofar as is necessary for the purpose of performing its obligations under this agreement;

• (2) in accordance with Franchisor's instructions except where to do so would infringe data protection laws or any other statutory provision that prevents Franchisee from complying with such instructions;

Source: Item 20 — OUTLETS AND FRANCHISEE INFORMATION (FDD pages 41–49)