The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is a landmark federal statute in the United States that was the first bill signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The act amends T
Ledbetter speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
President Obama signing the Act into law; to his right is the new law's namesake, Lilly Ledbetter
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Lilly Lynn McDaniel Ledbetter was an American activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. regarding employment discrimination. Two ye
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
…Republican presidential candidate John McCain's opposition to the bill and candidate Barack Obama's support. The antecedents of the case were posed when Lilly Ledbetter, a production supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, filed an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination under Title VII of the Civil…
Ledbetter in 2016
Ledbetter promoting Barack Obama for working-class families in Pennsylvania for his presidential campaign in 2008.