Pres. Barack Obama on the 29th of January 2009 signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a statute that changes and amends the 180-day limitation for equal pay lawsuit.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act amends the 180 days’ grace period whereby the employee should be able to file for lawsuit if he or she believes that they are receiving discriminatory wages. The Act removes the time frame included in the Civil Rights Act.
The reason behind this is that the employee might not be able to file the suit because it would sometimes take those years to discover that they are being paid below that of their counterpart. Read More