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| President Obama Signs Wage Discrimination Legislation |
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Today President Barack Obama signed legislation extending the statute of limitations for employees to sue for wage discrimination. The legislation is known as the Lilly Ledbetter bill in honor of an Alabama woman who worked for Goodyear Tire for twenty years for less money than her male counterparts (you know, the woman whose name kept coming up on the campaign trail?). The new law reverses the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 decision that said Ledbetter could not sue for pay discrimination because her suit was filed after the tolling of the statute of limitations. However, because of the Supreme Court decision, Ledbetter won't be able to personally benefit from the new law. "Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of . . .[b]ut with the ... president's signature today, I will have an even richer reward. I know that my daughters and granddaughters and your daughters and your granddaughters will have a better deal." At the signing ceremony Obama noted that women in the U.S. make 78 cents to each dollar earned by men. He went on to point out that equal pay issues affect everyone (not just women). "It's about parents who find themselves with less money for tuition and child care, couples who wind up with less to retire on, households where one breadwinner is paid less than she deserves . . . [t]hat's the difference between affording the mortgage or not, between keeping the heat on, or paying the doctor bills, or not." Critics of the new law say the measure could allow workers to file suits decades after the alleged discrimination first occurred. *quotations courtesy of CNNMoney.com |