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.”