What Is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?
• The act would allow pay discrimination lawsuits to proceed years or even decades after alleged discrimination took place. • • Under the act, employees could sue at any time after alleged discrimination occurred, so long as they have received any compensation affected by it in the preceding 180 days. Policy Objections • Since ancient Roman times, all Western legal systems have featured statutes of limitations for most legal claims. • Statutes of limitations perform several important functions that would be sacrificed by the Ledbetter Act, including: • • Furthering justice by blocking suits where defensive evidence is likely to be stale or expired; • Preventing bad actors from continuing to harm the plaintiff and other potential victims; • Preventing gaming of the system (such as destroying defensive evidence or running up damages); • Promoting the resolution of claims.[1] • The Ledbetter Act would allow cases asserting extremely tenuous links between alleged discrimination and differe
