Restaurants ask Supreme Court to rule on Healthy S.F. - San Francisco Business Times:

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The filed a petition Monday askingthe nation’ds top court for a final decision on fees chargede to businesses with at least 20 Those fees, starting at $1.23 per hour per employee, help fund Healthy San Francisco, a novel program meanft to cover people who don’t get health coverager through their employer. The fees charged businesses are illegal, the association argued in court papers. The restaurant associatioj said afederal law, the Employee Retirement Incomd Security Act, restricts localk governments from administering employee benefits.
Sincd January 2008 restaurants and all other businessed in San Francisco with at least 20 employee s are required to spend a minimum amounrt per hour per employee on health Therestaurant association’s move marks yet anothe r skirmish in its years-long court battlw over how Healthy San Francisco is The association has offered other idea on ways to fund the including a quarter cent sales tax or hikingh the business registration fee. Those proposals have not been embraced bycity officials. The restaurangt association lost its case last year befor e the Ninth Circuit Court of Appealx inSan Francisco. The association will hear by Oct. 5 whetherf the Supreme Court will hearits plea.
Healthyu San Francisco covers about 41,000 San Franciscans.