Pay Equity
Does the Supreme Court hate working class women?
In LEDBETTER v. GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO, the Supreme Court makes it almost impossible for workers who already are paid inequitably to sue for pay discrimination because, as Scalito wrote, "We have previously held that the time for filing a charge of employment discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) begins when the discriminatory act occurs [PDF]". Meaning that, if you find out years later (like most people) that you were paid less or passed by for promotions, you are bound by statutes of limitation and thus cannot sue an employer for discrimination retroactively if it is beyond the 180 to 300 days from the time that the discrimination occurred.
From the The ACLU's Amicus Brief :
Discrimination | Home Care Workers | Pay Equity | Chevron Decision | Deparment of Labor | Justice Stephen Breyer | Long Island at Home, Ltd. v. Coke | US Supreme Court
