Federal law says that state and local governments can't force employers to change their employee benefits plans. This well-established precedent has been used to block state and local laws aimed at setting minimum health care spending requirements in Maryland and New York. Now the city of San Francisco is in federal court arguing that its health care law overcomes federal pre-emption because employers who opt to pay the city directly will get city-provided discounted health benefits for employees.
July 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Federal law says that state and local governments can’t force employers to change their employee benefits plans. Only Congress can.
A Wal-Mart-backed trade group has twice used this well-established precedent to scuttle state and local laws aimed at setting minimum health care spending requirements in Maryland and New York.
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