http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/lauding-lilly-ledbetter-signing/ Statements have come in from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Council of Jewish Women welcoming President Barack Obama’s signing of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Thursday morning. The equal-pay legislation, the first bill that the new president has signed into law, overturns a 2007 Supreme Court decision which ruled that workers must file a wage discrimination lawsuit within six months of the first instance of discrimation. The new law restores the old interpretation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which considers each paycheck a new act of discrimination and would allow lawsuits within six months of when the discrimination is discovered, no matter when the discrmination originally started. Here’s JCPA’s statement: en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-01-30T;02:30:00-05:00