.Ledbetter's breakthrough that she was actually getting lower than her male counterparts for performing the exact same work at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama resulted in her claim, which inevitably stopped working when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had actually filed her criticism too late. The court controlled that laborers must submit lawsuits within 6 months of very first obtaining a prejudiced paycheck-- in Ledbetter's case, it was years before she learned about the difference by means of an undisclosed letter.Two years eventually, previous Head of state Barack Obama authorized in to law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Action, which provided workers the right to file a claim against within 180 times of acquiring each discrimination paycheck, certainly not just the very first one." Lilly Ledbetter never ever laid out to be a trailblazer or even a somebody. She only would like to be paid the same as a male for her hard work," Obama said in a claim Monday. "Lilly performed what so many Americans before her have performed: establishing her views high for herself and even much higher for her youngsters as well as grandchildren.".