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In case you needed proof that discrimination laws apply to everyone – and every business – the EEOC has taken up the case of a 56-year old strip club waitress who it says was fired because of her age.

It’s about time something this funny happened.

On the contrary.

As some of the dust begins to settle from the financial and professional fallout, Forbes says the mass layoffs in the financial industry are grossly affecting women over men.

This morning, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. It was the first bill Obama has signed since taking office.

Joining him at the signing ceremony were, among others, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Lilly Ledbetter herself, who is seen on the video receiving the signatory pen.

Yesterday, the House voted 250-177 to send the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to the President’s desk. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, President Obama has indicated he will sign the bill tomorrow, making it the first major legislation approved under his tenure.

But debate still rages over whether the change in limitations on discrimination claims will help or hurt the future of HR law. Either way, passage of a controversial employment bill this early on is a clear harbinger of things to come…

Hopeful, demanding and difficult: Quotes from the icon on the meaning and nature of work show how expansive he viewed the term “civil rights,” and how much more he could have done, if he’d had the chance.