Obama just signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act!! I'm SOO happy. I posted about the 2007 supreme court ruling a few months ago which made my blood boil.
The short recap: Lilly Ledbetter had worked for goodyear tires for 19 years when she found out she had been paid significantly less (more than 360,000 less) than male co-workers. She sued but the supreme court decided that employees needed to bring suit within the first 180 days of the discriminatory practice. Since the company was able to conceal their discriminatory practices for more than six months, Ledbetter was out of luck.
The court argued that their ruling was protecting these poor companies from a wealth of law suits. Just a thought, BUT maybe American companies could protect themselves by paying their female workers the same as their male workers instead of the 78 cents to the dollar that they currently do. Would that be so hard? Well, now they're going to have to try that route since that their Republican friends are out of power. Hurray!
2 comments:
I was so happy when I heard this too. Sad that discrimination against women is not yet a thing of the past, but happy that we seem to be moving in the right direction again.
I guess Obama's first 100 days are going to be noteworthy! It's about time!
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