If You Knew Lilly, Like I Know Lilly

The Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act already address gender-based discrimination in pay in the U.S.  So what does the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act do? It extends the statute of limitations for pay-discrimination cases. 

Who does this help?  It helps lawyers, for sure.  

How about small businesses? Well, now small businesses open themselves up to law suits if they have to let a female employee go.  A disgruntled, female, ex-employee now has a sure-fire way to get back at her former employer.

 

Surely it helps women.  Not so fast.  If a small business has a choice of hiring a man or hiring a woman, who are they going to hire; the man or the potential law suit? 

This law just kills mosquitoes.