May 7, 2009

Is Tenure Denial a Fair-Pay Issue? Federal Judge Says Yes

By Eric Kelderman

When President Obama signed a new law in January that expanded workers' rights to sue for discriminatory pay inequities, some higher-education legal experts predicted the measure would have little effect on colleges.

But a recent ruling by a federal judge in Mississippi could change that drastically by widening the areas covered by the law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, to include decisions on tenure.

"University lawyers may never have considered that the Ledbetter

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