A judge in Maryland
threw out our fair state's requirement that Wal-mart provide its workers with proper health care.
Here's what would have been required of everybody's favorite retailer:
The state law would have required large employers to spend at least 8 percent of payroll on health care or pay the difference in taxes.
I don't know about you, but I'd say that it's time Wal-mart owns up to its responsibility to take proper care of ALL of its workers, not just those in Maryland (which, it seems, it doesn't have to do now). Legislation to require this, unfortunately, is now out of the question. Any suggestions on what to do?
Update: Thanks to mbair for
this link to the text of the ruling as provided by RILA, Wal-mart's friends.