Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Show Us Our Money

Lets say in the workplace you are unknown to what your coworkers make compared to yourself. Would that bother you? Studies have shown that people want to know what they make compared to their coworkers. Lilly Ledbetter worked at Goodyear tire and worked up to a higher position with a couple of other male colleagues with the same tenure. She soon came onto that she mad significantlly less than her male coworkers. She then sued Goodyear for pay discrimination and it went to the supreme court. The court ruled in favor of Goodyear because that you have to sue within 180 days of the dicriminatory paycheck, and she missed the mark by about 20 years. She ended up getting stuck with a $3,165 bill from Goodyear for court cost. Lilly is now fighting for the law to be changed but no luck has came yet. Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton are for the amendment and John McCain is against it.

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