Quote – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Slate’s Biz Box.

[Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter act is] a decision that could prove harmful to small business….Without limits, small businesses would be forced into the position of trying to defend an employment decision that occurred in the distant past…Because discrimination cases tend to rely on circumstantial evidence ('he said, she said' testimony), it would serve both parties best to review what occurred immediately after the event, not years later.

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) From “The Ledbetter Act: A Bad Thing?”, by Marc Tracy of Slate’s Biz Box.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009