New job-discrimination law
President Obama signed legislation making it easier for women and minorities to file job-discrimination lawsuits. The bill, passed quickly by the new Congress, was a response to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said discrimination claims must be filed within 180 days of a company’s initial decision to pay a worker less than it pays another worker doing the same job. The new law eliminates that time requirement.
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