Obama to sign equal wage bill
WASHINGTON — Congress on Tuesday sent the White House what is expected to be the first legislation President Obama signs into law: a bill that makes it easier for women and others to sue for pay discrimination, even if the discrimination has prevailed for years, even decades.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would sign it Thursday during a public ceremony.
The bill is a response to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said a person must file a claim of discrimination within 180 days of a company’s initial decision to pay a worker less than it pays another worker doing the same job. Under the bill, every new discriminatory paycheck would extend the statute of limitations for another 180 days.
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