House Committee: Take This Job Ruling and Shove It

by Mike Hall, AFL-CIO (reposted)

Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:11PM

Thursday, June 28, 2007 : The U.S. Supreme Court on May 30 said Lilly Ledbetter didn't act fast enough in filing a suit over nearly two decades of pay discrimination at an Alabama Goodyear plant.

How's this for fast? Less than a month after the Supreme Court decision, the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to rectify what Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calf.) calls the court's "misguided decision." The bill now is on its way to the full House.

In the 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that workers must file pay-discrimination lawsuits within 180 days after the discrimination begins. It's just tough luck if the worker, like Ledbetter, doesn't become aware of the discrimination until the 180-day clock has run out.

Prior to the ruling, many courts allowed workers to sue for pay discrimination years after the initial discrimination because the courts considered each new paycheck a new discriminatory act.

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