Lobbying Group: Seattle’s Benefits Ordinance Is Unlike Law In Golden Gate

Mealey's (April 6, 2020, 8:03 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Seattle, in seeking to dismiss a lobbying group’s complaint over an ordinance requiring hotels to provide benefits to employees, is pretending that the ordinance is “a reprise” of the law upheld in Golden Gate Restaurant Ass’n v. City & County of San Francisco, when the ordinance is actually “very different,” ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) argues in its March 23 opposition in a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging that the ordinance violates the express preemption provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, No. 18-1188, W.D. Wash.)....