POLS 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Combat Action Ribbon, Combat Action Badge, Combat Medical Badge
1 Oct 2016
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Over her nineteen-year career at goodyear tire, lilly ledbetter was consistently given low rankings in annual performance-and-salary reviews and low raises relative to other employees. Ledbetter sued goodyear for gender discrimination in violation of title vii of the civil rights act of 1964, alleging that the company had given her a low salary because of her gender. A jury found for ledbetter and awarded her over . 5 million, which the district judge later reduced to. Goodyear appealed, citing a title vii provision that requires discrimination complaints to made within 180 days of the employer"s discriminatory conduct. The jury had examined ledbetter"s entire career for evidence of discrimination, but goodyear argued that the jury should only have considered the one annual salary review that had occurred within the 180-day limitations period before ledbetter"s complaint. The u. s. court of appeals for the eleventh circuit reversed the lower court, but without adopting goodyear"s position entirely.
