LILLY LEDBETTER AND OBAMA’S FIRST BILL SIGNED INTO LAW
The U.S. Congress and our newly inaugurated President Obama signed into law this morning the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This new law is a clear repudiation of the conservative Supreme Court’s ruling last year in Ledbetter v. Goodyear which many legal scholars agree wiped out years of employment law precedence on equal pay provisions. While my law office emphasizes representing clients with employee benefit claims, as compared to the equal pay, wrongful termination and discrimination suits seen in the broader practice of employee rights, this new law is still worthy of mention.
Ms. Ledbetter is a former employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in a plant located in Gadsden, Alabama. She worked there for more than 19 years (more…)