President Obama Signs Ledbetter
The first bill that President Obama has signed while in office was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signed on Thursday, January 29th, and which overturns the 2007 US Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
Ledbetter, who travelled with the President on the inauguration train from Philly to DC, and who also spoke at the Democratic National Convention, had sued Goodyear for unequal pay over her 19 years of employment with the tire and rubber company. She submitted evidence that men had been paid more money than she had been paid for doing the same work for the company. She claimed that she had not been aware of the pay discrepancy until shortly before she left the company, and that was why she had to file the lawsuit after the normal statute of limitations had run.
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