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ERIC continues to be confident in our lawsuit against the City of Seattle and believes that the City’s latest arguments to dismiss the lawsuit will be rejected by the court

ERIC filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit against the City of Seattle. In the motion ERIC argues that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal law that enables employers to administer health and retirement benefits uniformly across the country, preempts Part 3 of the Seattle Hotel Employees Health and Safety Initiative

The City of Seattle’s request to dismiss ERIC’s lawsuit against it, will not stop ERIC from fighting the health coverage and payment mandates in Part 3 of the Seattle Hotel Employees Health and Safety Initiative

ERIC is pleased the City of Seattle has agreed to a temporary non-enforcement of the health coverage and payment mandates in Part 3 of the Seattle Hotel Employees Health and Safety Initiative

ERIC today filed a complaint against the City of Seattle for obstructing the federal law that enables large employers to administer health and retirement benefits uniformly across the country.