The state Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on a case that attorneys said could have altered the landscape of the franchise business model in Pennsylvania.
Less than two weeks after hearing arguments in Saladworks v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Gaudioso), the high court issued a one-sentence order Dec. 16, dismissing the appeal as having been improvidently granted. The ruling leaves intact a Commonwealth Court decision, which had determined that an injured worker was not an employee of Saladworks, but instead an employee of a company doing business under the Saladworks name as a franchisee.
