.Ledbetter's finding that she was making lower than her male equivalents for doing the very same project at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama led to her legal action, which essentially failed when the High court ruled in 2007 that she had actually filed her grievance late. The court ruled that employees should submit cases within six months of first obtaining a prejudiced salary-- in Ledbetter's case, it was actually years before she learnt more about the disparity with an undisclosed letter.Two years later on, previous President Barack Obama signed right into legislation the Lilly Ledbetter Exhibition Pay Out Act, which gave employees the right to file suit within 180 times of receiving each discrimination payday, not simply the 1st one." Lilly Ledbetter never ever set out to become an innovator or even a household name. She just wished to be actually paid for the like a man for her hard work," Obama claimed in a claim Monday. "Lilly performed what a lot of Americans prior to her have actually performed: setting her views high for herself and also higher for her kids and grandchildren.".