Can Healthsource Chiropractic make any additional training programs mandatory for franchisees and their personnel?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Initial Training to our satisfaction.
b. You agree to have your General Manager (if any) and/or other employees who attend our Initial Training complete additional training programs at places and times as we may request from time to time during the Term of this Agreement.
c. In addition to providing the Initial Training described above, we reserve the right to offer and hold such additional ongoing training programs and franchise owners meetings regarding such topics and at such times and locations as we may deem necessary or appropriate. We also reserve the right to make any of these training programs mandatory for you and/or designated owners, General Managers, employees, and/or representatives of yours. Also, all employees hired by you after the opening of the Franchise must attend our Initial Training and you must pay all their travel, lodging, meal, transportation and personal expenses in the event we do not offer the Initial Training virtually in the future and instead require in-person attendance. If we offer any such mandatory additional training programs, then you or your designated personnel must attend a minimum of seventy-five percent (75%) of the programs offered on an annual basis. In addition, you are required to attend one-hundred (100%) of our annual conference, a training program that we conduct once per year. The location of the annual conference will be determined by us. Your attendance at the annual conference is mandatory. Required attendees of the annual conference include: each principal owner of the Franchised Business, your General Manager and if you use a professional corporation to service your patients, any chiropractor employed by the professional corporation. You will be solely responsible for the wages and travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee of yours who attends the annual conference. We will not charge you a fee to attend the annual conference, but we will collect fees from you that are imposed by third parties relating to the annual conference, such as fees charged for food and beverage.
d. You agree to pay all wages and compensation owed to all of your personnel who attend our Initial Training and/or any mandatory or optional training we provide.
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 77–282)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Healthsource Chiropractic's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Healthsource Chiropractic retains the right to offer and mandate additional ongoing training programs and franchise owner meetings. These programs cover various topics at times and locations deemed necessary or appropriate by Healthsource Chiropractic. Franchisees and their designated owners, general managers, employees, and representatives may be required to attend these programs.
In addition to mandatory training programs, Healthsource Chiropractic requires attendance at its annual conference. Principal owners, general managers, and chiropractors employed by a professional corporation servicing patients must attend. Franchisees are responsible for the wages, travel, lodging, and living expenses for all attendees from their franchise. While there is no attendance fee for the annual conference itself, franchisees will be responsible for third-party fees, such as those for food and beverage. Franchisees must ensure their General Manager and other employees obtain all certifications and licenses required by law to perform their duties.
Franchisees must attend a minimum of 75% of the additional mandatory training programs offered annually and 100% of the annual conference. Healthsource Chiropractic also requires franchisees to establish any training programs for their employees and/or independent contractors as prescribed in writing from time to time. Franchisees are also required to enroll in and maintain human resources and payroll services from a designated vendor.