Labor & Employment
Bill Would Boost Pay-Bias Claims
Posted Jun 11, 2007, 07:33 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is leading an effort to introduce legislation that will overturn a recent Supreme Court ruling on pay discrimination.
The court ruled on May 29 in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. that Title VII pay disparity complaints must be filed with the EEOC within 180 days of the original pay discrimination. There is not a new violation with each new paycheck.
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who oversaw the EEOC in the late 1970s, has met with House and Senate staffers about drafting a new law to change the 180-day limit, Legal Times reports.
The House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing about the ruling on June 12, and plaintiff Lilly Ledbetter will testify.
Businesses oppose a longer statute of limitations, fearing a flood of stale discrimination claims will be filed if the lengthens the filing period. Norton did not provide details of the bill that is being drafted.
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