Anniversary of Signing of Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

January 29, 2010 is the one-year anniversary of the day President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law.  This was the first bill President Obama signed into law.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act reverses a Supreme Court ruling that made it more difficult for Americans to pursue pay discrimination claims.  On May 29, 2007, in its 5-4 Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision, the Supreme Court severely restricted the rights of employees to challenge unlawful pay discrimination.  Under the Ledbetter ruling, if an employee did not file a claim within 180 days of her employer's decision to pay her less, she was barred forever from challenging the discriminatory paychecks that followed.  Under the law before the Supreme Court decision, every discriminatory paycheck was a new violation that restarted the clock for filing a claim.  The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act restored that rule.

UPDATED: Watch Chairman Miller and Lilly Ledbetter have a conversation - One Year On.


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Read more about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Watch a compilation video of moments leading up to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act becoming law
Watch Lilly Ledbetter's testimony in a Committee hearing
Watch Chairman Miller's statement about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on the House floor
Watch a video of the press conference Chairman Miller held after passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act