[russharv63]

My wife was fired for filing a Virginia workers compensation claim. I am helping her fill out the EEOC intake questionnaire for retaliation. In the questionnaire it asks for the "number of employees in the organization at all locations." The choices are: fewer than 15, 15-100, 101-200, 201-500, or more than 500. She was fired from a fast food franchise. She was fired from one of the franchisee stores. Do we put down "15-100 employees" which would represent the franchisee store or "more than 500 employees" which represents the whole franchise?

[ma0641]

If it is a franchise use the employees at that location.

[AK lawyer]

I have to disagree, ma0644. I believe this would be the correct answer: "number of employees in the organization at all locations." = "more than 500 employees".

As I understand the question asked, they want to know the total number of employees the franchise has, at all locations. While the chain may have hundreds or thousands of locations, the individual franchise also has, as I understand it, multiple locations.

[AK lawyer]

A "franchise" is
"3. The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area. McDonalds has exported its franchise.
4. A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/franchise

Admittedly, OP may be confused between a franchisee and a franchiser. If, in fact, it is the franchiser which as more than 500 employees (or has granted franchises to franchisees, all of which together have more than 500 employees) ma0644 would be correct.