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Obama signs workforce anti-discrimination law (Reuters)

 
Reuters - President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, handing his labor and women's rights backers a victory by reversing a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that made it harder to sue for pay discrimination. (link)

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