No More Subminimum Wages

Eliminating 14(c) & Subminimum Wage - APSE

APSE has determined that while the sub-minimum wage may have at one time been a valid and effective strategy for enhancing the employment of people with ...

No More Subminimum Wages: The Time Is Now!

Many individuals can be paid below the minimum wage under a single subminimum wage certificate. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that under the 2,552 ...

Youth subminimum wages and why they should be eliminated

In most cases, this means the state has no youth training wage—a subminimum wage paid to workers under 20 for the first 90 days of employment— ...

It Is Time to Eliminate the Subminimum Wage: We Can No Longer ...

It Is Time to Eliminate the Subminimum Wage: We Can No Longer Allow Employers to Pay People with a Disability as Little as $0.25 an Hour.

Feds Weighing Changes To Subminimum Wage Program

Proponents of the subminimum wage program, however, say that ending it would just limit options for people with more significant disabilities ...

Momentum to Change the Subminimum Wage - New America

Today, 10 states have fully eliminated subminimum wage in a codified way, two have eliminated it without any legislation or official policy action, and five are ...

Some disabled workers in the U.S. make pennies per hour. It's legal.

Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers can legally pay disabled workers subminimum wages. Many workers never move to ...

Disabled workers can be paid less than the minimum wage. Some ...

At least 16 states, not including Missouri, have eliminated the subminimum wage, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Section 14c Lets Disabled Workers Earn Subminimum Wage | TIME

Another huge one: a nearly 90-year-old federal law from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that allows employers to pay Disabled people less ...

Subminimum Wage: What It Is, Why It's Unjust, and Why It Needs to ...

Over the decades, subminimum wage has become a mainstay of employers who wish to exploit the severely disabled without offering a pathway toward ...

Ending 14(c): Paying a Fair Wage to People with Disabilities

By six years after the bill is passed, no person with a disability would be making subminimum wage. The bill would give states and companies using Section 14(c) ...

Trends in Disability Employment Legislation

While the long-term consequences of subminimum wage elimination are still unclear, states are increasingly eliminating subminimum wages for ...

Eliminating the Subminimum Wage Would Reduce Opportunities for ...

Advocates for subminimum abolition claim that the current exemption from the federal minimum wage allows these disabled workers to be exploited ...

Subminimum Wage Program: DOL Could Do More to Ensure Timely ...

Through the 14(c) program, the Department of Labor (DOL) certifies employers to pay individuals with disabilities wages below the federal ...

Casey, Daines, Scott, McMorris Rodgers Announce Bipartisan Bill to ...

The majority of subminimum wage workers have an intellectual or developmental disability and are paid less than $3.50 an hour. Sen. Casey and ...

Pennies on the Dollar: The Use of Subminimum Wage for Disabled ...

Section 14(c) in Practice · the prevailing wage paid to workers without disabilities doing similar work; and · the productivity of the worker with a disability ...

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

The subminimum wage law gives employers an incentive to exploit the cheap labor provided by workers with disabilities. It also works as a disincentive to ...

The Employment of Workers with Disabilities at Subminimum Wages

Section 14(c) does not apply unless the disability actually impairs the worker's earning or productive capacity for the work being performed. The fact that a ...

Fight over pay for people with disabilities may erupt next month

A rule the Biden administration is considering could ignite a war over the future of the decades-old 14(c) subminimum wage law, which allows ...

From Dialogue to Policy - Embracing a Future Without Subminimum ...

The Task Force on Eliminating Subminimum Wages meets monthly to continue forming recommendations to provide the state legislature. The ...