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

by E Wayne Ross on May 7, 2009

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

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.