Opposition Grows to Legislation Targeting 14C Workers' Jobs

Since 1938, the United States Department of Labor has provided opportunities through Section 14(c) certificates to provide every American ...

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

However, most are unaware of an 84-year-old law that allows businesses to pay disabled workers just pennies for each hour of work. Subminimum ...

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 ...

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

Under a nearly 100-year-old US law that is being reexamined by the Department of Labor, people with disabilities can be paid below minimum wage for their work.

The Labor Department looks to fulfill Biden's promise to disabled ...

In 2020, Joe Biden and all the major Democratic presidential candidates said they'd end subminimum wage labor for people with disabilities.

Dignity in Pay Act - SWTCIE Illinois

Is updated data on subminimum wage available? In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) introduced Section 14(c), allowing employers to pay ...

Subminimum Wages - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

The Commission collected data and testimony from Members of. Congress, Labor and Justice Department officials, self-advocates and workers with ...

A loophole in federal law allows companies to pay disabled workers ...

Current law allows employers to pay as little as $1 per hour, or less, to workers with disabilities if they can't perform a job as well as a person who is not ...

New Bill Would Phase Out Subminimum Wage for Workers With ...

Many members of the general public are unaware that it's legal to pay disabled people subminimum wage. Indeed, a loophole in the Fair Labor ...

Trends in Disability Employment Legislation

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

PAY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES MINIMUM WAGE OR HIGHER

The Minnesota Coalition for Disability Wage Justice is fighting so that people with disabilities are paid the minimum wage or higher for the ...

H. Rept. 116-150 - RAISE THE WAGE ACT | Congress.gov

The Secretary shall determine the minimum wage to be in effect under this subsection for each period described in subsection (a)(1)(G).

Subminimum Wages for People with Disabilities

The objective of the study was to investigate the civil rights implications of paying people less than minimum wage based on their disability ...

Youth subminimum wages and why they should be eliminated

These laws allow employers to pay youth less than adults in the same jobs and, in many cases, exclude young workers from the minimum wage ...

Momentum to Change the Subminimum Wage - New America

This report examines the policies across the U.S. that drive the use or elimination of subminimum wage, as well as how to support employment and fair wages ...

Prohibition on the Payment of Subminimum Wages Under 14(c ...

The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, operating as the U.S. AbilityOne Commission ("Commission"), ...

Consider the Source - National Employment Law Project

of minimum wage legislation by appealing to widely held anxieties about job loss and economic stagnation. To our knowledge, this is the first study to ...

ODEP | U.S. Department of Labor

October 2024 Disability Employment Statistics Ages 16 years and over: Labor Force Participation Rate. People with disabilities: 24.5% ...

Minimum wage in the United States - Wikipedia

In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the ...

Follow-Up Letter to DOL 11.6.23

The Government Accountability Office's 2023 report concluded that the U.S. DOL found Fair Labor Standards Act special minimum wage law.