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On 4th Anniversary of Fair Pay Act, Ledbetter Urges Action on Paycheck Fairness

Jan 29, 2013 Mike Hall | Political Action/Legislation

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Four years ago today President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, with Lilly Ledbetter, who suffered 20 years of pay discrimination while doing the same work as men at her Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory, looking on.

Now, she is urging people to call on Congress to pass the recently reintroduced Paycheck Fairness Act , calling it “the next step.”

Supreme Court Backs Wal-Mart in Pay Discrimination Case

Jun 20, 2011 Mike Hall | Corporate Greed

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 that as many as 1.6 million women who are current or former Wal-Mart employees cannot sue Wal-Mart for pay discrimination in a class-action suit. A lower court had ruled that the women could join together in a class action.