The issue of compensating your employees just got a bit trickier.
For Lilly Ledbetter, it was a day of vindication over a decade in the making.
President Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act into law.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make suing for pay discrimination easier by altering a time limit on such suits.
Democrats flexed their new political muscles Friday as the House of Representatives passed two pay-equity bills high on the agenda of the Democratic leadership.
Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968 as the first black woman in the U.S. Congress, once said: "I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black."
Not knowing what your colleagues make can hurt you. A modest proposal for closing the paycheck gap
An Alabama woman joins Sen. Ted Kennedy in fighting for a bill giving employees greater remedy for wage discrimination.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Wednesday that would make it easier for people to sue over pay discrimination, an effort to roll back a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that limited such cases.
How long have you been in your current job? Six months? Less than six months? How about six years, or 16? It hardly matters: In any case, you probably have only the foggiest notion (if any) of what your colleagues earn, or how big their last raise was.
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