Wal-Mart employee and labor relations: Difference between revisions

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On Wednesday July 7, 2006, the Maryland law was overturned in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz who ruledheld that a federal law, the [[Employee Retirement Income Security Act]] (ERISA), [[Preemption (law)|pre-empted]] the Maryland law. In his opinion, Motz said that the law would "hurt Wal-Mart by imposing the administrative burden of tracking benefits in Maryland differently than in other states."

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