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Lilly Ledbetter Statement on House Consideration of Legislation on Pay Discrimination

Monday, July 30, 2007

 

WASHINGTON, DC -- Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in a pay discrimination lawsuit decided by the Supreme Court, issued the following statement today on legislation that would rectify the Supreme Court’s misguided ruling in her case. The House is expected to vote on the legislation, H.R. 2831, tonight.

“I spent 19 years working for Goodyear. As I found out late in my career, Goodyear had been discriminating against me in pay because I am a woman. I had to support my family with less income than what the men were getting, even though I was doing the same job they were doing. My case is over and it is too bad that the Supreme Court ruled the way that it did. But now Congress has the opportunity to act so that this won’t happen to anyone else. If Congress passes H.R. 2831, I would feel that my long fight through the courts was worthwhile, because it would mean that other workers who find themselves the target of pay discrimination would be able to seek and get justice.”

U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced H.R. 2831, the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007.” For more information on the legislation, click here.

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