The extent of the allegedly discriminatory pay was not even known to Ledbetter until during the course of discovery when she learned that male co-workers with less experience and seniority than her were making much more than she was, and that she was being paid approximately 20 percent less than the lowest paid male employee.
It looks as if the nation’s highest court has gotten itself overturned again. On Jan. 29, President Obama signed his bill into law called the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, in direct response to the Supreme Court’s mishandling of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire . This comes just weeks after the Jan. 1 ADA Amendments Act of 2008 went into effect, where Congress rejected the Supreme Court’s decisions in Sutton v. United Air Lines Inc. (requiring ameliorating factors to be taken into consideration in disability cases) and Toyota Motor Mfg. v. Williams (requiring an impairment of only those major life activities which are of central importance to most people’s daily lives).
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