Ah, stars fell on Alabama and they gave us Lilly Ledbetter. On
January 29, 2009, President Obama signed his very first piece of
legislation: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act. Named
for the Alabama resident who discovered her employer was paying
her less than men doing the same job, this law makes it easier
for other women like her to effectively challenge unequal pay.
Lilly Ledbetter took her pay discrimination complaint all the
way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 2007 that claims like
hers had to be filed within 180 days of an employer’s decision
to pay a worker less—even if the worker didn’t learn about the
unfair pay until much later, as was the case for Mrs. Ledbetter.
To make sure that people can effectively challenge unequal pay,
the law President Obama signed shortly after taking office
amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so that unfair pay
complaints can be filed within 180 days of a discriminatory
paycheck—and that 180 days resets after each paycheck is issued.
(source) Here in Alab