google.com - 1/29/2009
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7 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is signing into law an equal-pay bill that is popular with labor and women's groups and is expected to make it easier for workers to sue for decades-old discrimination. Obama was to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on Thursday during an ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/27/2009
mcclatchydc.com - 1/23/2009
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WASHINGTON — The Senate approved landmark worker rights
legislation on Thursday that will make it easier for...
those who think they've endured pay discrimination to seek legal help. The vote was 61-36.
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Senate approves landmark equal pay legislation
nytimes.com - 1/29/2009
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President Obama signed his first bill into law
on Thursday, approving legislation that expands workers’ rights to...
sue over pay discrimination. >
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Obama Signs Equal-Pay Legislation
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Obama Set to Sign Equal-Pay Bill
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The president plans to put his signature on an equal-pay bill that's popular with labor and women's groups Thursday.
Expected to make it easier for workers to sue for decades-old discrimination. ...
Toddlers in Washington
If I Ran the Zoo —
... Obama in the economic stimulus plan, which he (unwisely) concedes on after reaching out to them, and then they vote 100% against. Because they want tax cuts for high-income Americans. A policy proven, proven I say, to work have contributed to causing a major recession. One hundred percent of House Republicans decided that saying no to economic recovery and standing by failed policies was the essence of party loyalty. Meanwhile, the Ledbetter Bill passed the Senate, with only five Republicans voting for it, including the ...
As One Pay Equity Bill Becomes Law, Another Languishes
TPM Election Central —
... At this very moment, President Obama is preparing to sign the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. It's an admirable bill that remedies a regrettable 2007 Supreme Court ruling which had constrained the time limit for women to file pay-discrimination claims against their employers. ...
Obama signs first major piece of legislation: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.
Think Progress —
... Today, President Obama signed his first major piece of legislation, boosting workers’ ability to bring pay discrimination lawsuits. Also at the ceremony with Obama was ...
Lilly Ledbetter: How Courts & the Legislature are Supposed to Interact
Sound Politics —
Lilly Ledbetter: How Courts & the Legislature are Supposed to Interact The story . Here's the basic sequence of events: 1) Congress passes law. 2) Application of law is challenged in court. Supreme Court rules on the case based on the law written by Congress...not merely some desired outcome that would be perceived as just, regardless of applicable law and precedent (i.e., legislating from the bench). 3) The legislative branch, aware because of the court case that the law could use some amending to achieve desired goals, acts accordingly to change the law itself. Whatever one ...
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LILY LEDBETTER . Fair pay for women is the first bill signed . Huzzah! President Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, approving equal-pay legislation that he said would “send a clear message that making our economy work means making sure it works for everybody.” Mr. Obama was ...
Lilly Ledbetter Has Her Day —
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed his first bill into law—the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—with the lofty aim of ensuring equal pay for equal work and eradicating workplace discrimination. The bill’s namesake, a former Goodyear employee, was on hand, as was First ...
Michelle Obama: Ledbetter 'An Inspiration' —
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First Lady Michelle Obama honored Lilly Ledbetter with a reception at the White House today after President Obama signed the equal pay bill that bears Ledbetter's name.
Ledbetter is "an inspiration to women and men all across the country," Mrs. Obama said in her remarks at the reception, ...
Obama Signs the Lilly Ledbetter Act! —
Feministing
Woo hoo! Obama has officially signed, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, fair pay legislation! In Obama's own words:
It is fitting that with the very first bill I sign ... we are upholding one of this nation's first principles: that we are all created equal and each deserve a ...
Obama's first bill -- equal pay, equal work —
Top of the Ticket
Lilly Ledbetter, now 70, discovered late in her career that the male supervisors at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant where she worked in Alabama were making 40% more for doing the same work. Though a jury found the company liable, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, found that she could ...
Obama Signs First Bill, a Fair Pay Act —
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President Obama said it was fitting that he signed a bill granting greater ability to workers to sue for pay discrimination as his first as president.
"We are upholding one of this nation’s first principles: that we are all created equal and each deserve a chance to pursue our own version of ...
Obama Set to Sign Equal-Pay Bill —
CNSNews.com Headlines
Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama is signing into law an equal-pay bill that is popular with labor and women's groups and is expected to make it easier for workers to sue for decades-old discrimination. Obama was to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on Thursday during an East Room ...
Obama signs equal pay law —
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From NBC's Athena Jones With the stroke of a pen, President Obama signed his first bill into law and fulfilled a campaign promise to help make it easier to sue for equal pay.
The bill is named for an Alabama woman who found out her employer, ...
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