Senate democrats tried to overturn the recent supreme court ruling regarding pay equity. A woman working for goodyear found out she was making at least $6,000 less than the lowest paid male doing work equal to her. She sewed the company and won, but lost the appeal at the supreme court because she did not take action within six months of hte discrimination. But, she never knew it was going on, so how could she take action? Goodyear managers were forbidden from discussing pay.
Senate democrats' bill would give the employee 6 months after each paycheck to take action, instead of 6 months from the time of discrimination. Ted Kennedy gave a great speech about the measure, shaming the supreme court for ignoring civil rights and siding with discrimination. Republicans are against it because they think it would encourage law suits. I think they're against it because they don't support pay equity.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89886016
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