Chamber Defeats Bill to Increase Pay Discrimination Lawsuits

In a significant legislative victory, the U.S. Chamber helped block efforts to expand federal discrimination laws. By a vote of 56-42 on April 23, the Senate rejected the “Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” which would have overturned a Supreme Court decision restricting compensation discrimination claims that are filed many years after the alleged act. This sweeping bill would effectively do away with statutes of limitations and expand the class of individuals that can bring cases. The House passed its own version of the bill in July 2007.

“The bill is an overreaction to the Supreme Court decision,” says Michael Eastman, the Chamber’s executive director for labor policy. “Reasonable people can disagree about how long a statute of limitations should be, but there shouldn’t be any disagreement that there should be one,” Eastman writes on the Chamber’s blog, ChamberPost. 

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