The House overwhelmingly passed legislation reversing a Supreme Court decision that severely limited workers' ability to sue their employers over sex-based wage discrimination in early January.
The bill, H.R. 11, restores the law prior to the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, according to officials of the House Education & Labor Committee. The bill passed 247-171.
The House then passed the Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 12, which prohibits sex discrimination in the form of unequal pay for equal work. The vote was 256-163.
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