PHI 445 WEEK 3 DISCUSSION

PHI 445 WEEK 3 DISCUSSION Gender Discrimination (Goodyear) In the Case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the problems that would be discussed is based on pay discrimination due to gender. Over many years of career at Goodyear Tire, Lilly Ledbetter was consistently given low rankings in annual performance including salary reviews, and small raises when compared to other employees. Ledbetter filed a discrimination charge against Goodyear for gender discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, affirming that the organization had paid her a low salary due to her gender (Brake & Grossman, 2007). Lilly Ledbetter was awarded over 3 million dollars in punitive damages. However, the judge decreased the money to 360,000 per Title VII’s cap on damages (Brake & Grossman, 2007). The Case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. happened in Gadsen, Alabama, United States (Bader, 2013). Capitalism economic system matches this business since the organization is acting on what interests them not the interest of the community, which motivates the business activity (Fieser, 2015). The laws that govern or affect operations, in this case, is the Equal Pay of Act of 1963, which is also part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The law “prohibited sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same workplace, who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under the same working conditions” (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission n.d, p.1).