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Two things will happen as a result of this. One, cost of hiring employing people in America will increase, making American businesses less competitive, especially those unable to outsource or relocate production oversees.



Just so we're clear, the law does not create a new basis for discrimination. In the Ledbetter case, the US Supreme Court agreed the employer was guilty of illegal discrimination. The case failed because Ledbetter didn't know she was being shafted during the first six months of her employment, even though the discrimination lasted 19 years.

The new law removes the incentive for employers to HIDE the fact that they are breaking the laws that are already on the books, by re-setting the limitation period with each act of discrimination.

It's really an indefensible position to say that the US should encourage employers to illegally discriminate (and then conspire to hide it) so that the US manufacturing sector can compete on an international scale.

Why don't manufacturers just pay everyone equally (which they are required to do), but a little less?

Do Chinese/Mexican/Indonesian factories pay the women less to balance their budgets?


Edited by Soopergrizz (02/01/09 01:34 PM)
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