Learn the ins and outs of fair pay and don't get caught with lawsuits or government fines.

1. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
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2. Objectives
 Review original law
 Summarize revisions
 Discuss best practices
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3. Background
 Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.
 May 2007
 Supreme Court ruling confirmed Title VII wage
discrimination
 Ledbetter lost due to statute of limitations
 A wage discrimination claim must be filed within
180/300 days of the initial discrimination
 Employee is responsible for discovery of
discrimination
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5. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act 2009
 Effective January
29, 2009
 Enacted in response to
Ledbetter v. Goodyear
Tire and Rubber, Co
 Allows an employee to
seek damages for wage
discrimination each time
a discriminatory
compensation practice
occurs
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6. Lilly Ledbetter 2009
 Primarily amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
 Retains the 180/300 day time frame but renews
every time the employee receives compensation
 Any type of reimbursement reflecting bias becomes a
new act of discrimination
 A retroactive effective date of May 28, 2007
 Applies to all claims of discriminatory compensation
pending on or after that date
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7. Employer Responsibilities
 Strengthen maintenance of documentation reflecting pay
decisions
 Performance evaluations
 Pay Change forms
 Evaluate record retention policy
 Be proactive, identify and eliminate any discriminatory
pay inequities
 Conduct pay audits regularly
 Train and educate all managers on pay practices
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8. Organizational Impact
 Opens more opportunities for employees to
claim wage discrimination
 Modified the requirement of statue of limitations
to now begin at most recent act of discrimination
instead of from the initial act
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9. Best Practices
 Heighten management scrutiny on pay decisions
 Reduce opportunity for a large pay discrepancy
among employees with the same job description
 Increase employer awareness surrounding all
types of pay (wages, benefits, retirement)
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10. Food For Thought
 Will Congress consider revising the statute of
limitations for additional laws?
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11. Lilly Ledbetter Information
 For additional information go to:
www.eeoc.gov
• gary@thevirtualhrdirector.com
• http://www.thevirtualhrdirector.com
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