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The Employment of Workers with Disabilities at Subminimum Wages


Congress could help end subminimum wages for people with ...

Employees with disabilities working at companies that pay the subminimum wage earn $3.34 per hour on average and work about 16 hours a week, ...

FOR WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES PAID AT SUBMINIMUM WAGES

The fact that a worker may have a disability is not in and of itself sufficient to warrant the payment of a subminimum wage. For purposes of payment of ...

Ableism, Racism, and Subminimum Wage in the United States

FLSA Section 14(c) was introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to ensure people with disabilities were indeed paid based on their performance (Maurer, 2011; ...

Gov. Pritzker Signs Executive Order Eliminating the Subminimum ...

"Illinois is leading by example by ensuring people with disabilities are not paid a subminimum wage," said Governor JB Pritzker. "With this executive order my ...

U.S. Department of Labor WH-226 - Reginfo.gov

This is an application for the authority to employ workers with disabilities at subminimum wage rates under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), ...

The Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act of 2011

Disabled workers have been unfairly excluded from the federal minimum wage for 74 years, and today over 300,000 disabled workers are working for subminimum ...

Feds Weighing Changes To Subminimum Wage Program

Federal officials are rethinking the government program that allows people with disabilities to be paid less than minimum wage, with a new proposal expected ...

Paying Certain Workers Less than Minimum Wage

An employer may request to pay a worker a subminimum wage rate for on-the-job training. The employer must show that certain employment conditions exist and that ...

Tell Congress It's Time To End the Subminimum Wage for People ...

Under current federal law, employers are able to obtain “special wage certificates” that allow them to pay workers with disabilities less that the federal ...

Law allowing people with disabilities to be underpaid faces new ...

Under Section 14(c) of the act, employers can apply to the U.S. Department of Labor for special certificates that allow them to pay people with disabilities ...

The Subminimum Wage for Workers With Disabilities Is a Disgrace

It gives employers who secure a special certificate the ability to pay individuals whose earning capacity has been deemed “impaired by age or ...

Workers With Disabilities Can Earn $3.34 An Hour. Agency Says ...

They pay tens of thousands of people with disabilities an average wage of $3.34 a hour, the report says, for tasks like bagging newspapers, ...

Worker with a disability employment information

A worker with a disability has to be paid at least the minimum wage or a percentage thereof, based on the extent to which a worker's performance is limited.

Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act

Authorizes the employment of workers with disabilities at subminimum wages when their disabilities impair their productivity for the work being performed ...

Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities | idrpp

This act provides a way for employers to obtain government certification to pay employees with disabilities below minimum wage, based on disabilities that “may ...

AAPD Calls on Department of Labor to End the Practice of Paying ...

AAPD informed the Department that it fully supports ending the use of 14(c) and the practice of paying disabled workers subminimum wages.

Institute for Community Inclusion Fights Subminimum Wage

Wages under 14(c) can be less than $1 per hour for employees with ... people with disabilities currently receiving subminimum wage to access better jobs.

Subminimum Wage at a Glance - National Down Syndrome Society

Subminimum Wage for Disabled Workers across the United States. IMPACT ON WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES. Census data, based on the 2022 American Community Survey ...

Notice to Wisconsin Workers with Disabilities Paid at Special ...

Workers whose disabilities impair their ability to perform their work may be employed under a special minimum wage license issued by the Department of ...

End Segregated, Subminimum Wage Employment for People with ...

At the end of the transition period, all people with disabilities will be paid at least the federal minimum wage. Please contact your members of Congress today ...