Is there a requirement for a Healthsource Chiropractic franchisee's General Manager or other employees to complete additional training programs?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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.
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 77–282)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Healthsource Chiropractic's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if a franchisee employs a General Manager, Healthsource Chiropractic may require the General Manager and/or other employees to complete additional training programs at specified times and locations during the term of the agreement.
Healthsource Chiropractic also reserves the right to offer and hold ongoing training programs and franchise owner meetings, which they may deem mandatory for owners, General Managers, employees, and/or representatives. Franchisees must ensure their designated personnel attend a minimum of 75% of these programs annually. Additionally, attendance at the annual conference is mandatory for each principal owner, the General Manager, and any chiropractor employed by a professional corporation servicing patients.
The franchisee is responsible for all wages, compensation, travel, lodging, meal, transportation, and personal expenses incurred by their personnel attending any mandatory or optional training programs. All employees hired after the franchise opens must attend the Initial Training, with the franchisee covering all associated expenses if in-person attendance is required.