NAVIGATION MAIN MENU

COMPENDIUM LIBRARY/TWITTER MONITOR
VIDEO GALLERY
Economic News
Newsbrief Archives
Democrat Leadership Twitter and Realtime Feeds
Cabinet twitter and realtime feeds
North America weblog
International weblog
Democrats twitter directory
Latest Government Jobs and Public Tenders
Jobs Matrix
Global Travel Information
Pop Entertainment Forum
Start Portal


Please make a donation to support upkeep of the daily news journal, back archives, twitter feeds and the compendium library.










Democrats Will Seek to Reverse Court Decision on Wage Discri

Daily newsbrief journal for May 2007, also see http://www.usdemocrats.com/brief for a global 100-page perpetual brief and follow twitter @usdemocrats


Democrats Will Seek to Reverse Court Decision on Wage Discri

Postby admin » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:23 pm

Democrats Will Seek to Reverse Court Decision on Wage Discrimination« Thread Started on May 31, 2007, 1:23pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Democrats Will Seek to Reverse Court Decision on Wage Discriminationread at source> http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday1 ... gressional Democrats are vowing to move legislation responding to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that workers cannot sue under a core civil rights law for wage discrimination that happened years earlier.The high court ruled 5-4 in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear that a Goodyear employee who said she was paid less than comparable male employees during her 1979-98 career could not sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The court held that Lily Ledbetter’s claim was not valid because she did not file a formal complaint within 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, the statutory limit. Ledbetter said the wage difference emerged over a period of years, not months.In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg urged Congress to address the timing issue. “Pay disparities often occur, as they did in Ledbetter’s case, in small increments; cause to suspect that discrimination is at work develops only over time,” Ginsburg wrote.Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said she would introduce legislation “to clarify congressional intent” in the matter, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee chairman Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., vowed to “restore full protection against wage discrimination.”
admin
Site Admin
 
Posts: 82092
Joined: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:00 am

Return to May 2007

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests