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President Barack Obama has signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which extends the time period in which employees may sue their employers for pay discrimination. Pursuant to the new law, employees may file a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 180 days (or 300 days in a deferral state) after they receive any paycheck that they claim is the result of unlawful discrimination. The Act reverses the Supreme Court’s precedent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007), in which the Court ruled that Lilly Ledbetter’s wage discrimination claims were untimely because she did not file her claim within 180 days of the company’s original decision establishing her wage rate.

Under the new law, the clock starts ticking each time an “individual is affected by application of a compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits or compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from [a discriminatory] compensation decision or other practice.” The Act is retroactive to May 28, 2007, the day before the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision.

Given the new law, it is more important than ever that managers base employment decisions, including pay decisions, on legitimate business reasons and document those decisions effectively. ELI^®’s flagship harassment and discrimination training program, Civil Treatment^® for Managers, teaches participants about relevant workplace issues, including fair employment practices and documentation. To learn more about ELI’s catalogue of programs, visit www.eliinc.com.

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Founded in 1986, ELI specializes in providing interactive classroom and online learning solutions and related services to help organizations build a legal, ethical workplace culture that fosters teamwork and minimizes risk. ELI’s award-winning curriculum focuses on changing behaviors and building skills to produce measurable outcomes. Headquartered in Atlanta, ELI has worked with clients across a range of business sectors to give managers and employees practical skills for maintaining fair employment and ethical business practices. For more information, visit the ELI website at www.eliinc.com.

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ELI^® specializes in the following training: harassment and sexual harassment training; race, age, gender, disability, pregnancy, religious, sexual orientation, genetic, and other forms of discrimination training; retaliation and protected protest; unjust dismissal; fair hiring; Civil Treatment training; compliance training; wage and hour compliance training; business ethics training; Sarbanes-Oxley training; Employee Free Choice Act and union avoidance training; values-based leadership training; leadership development; and abusive and bullying behavior.