The Employment of Workers with Disabilities at Subminimum Wages

Characteristics. Section 14(c) of the FLSA authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from the Wage and Hour Division, to pay subminimum wages - wages ...

Subminimum Wage | U.S. Department of Labor

Employment of Workers with Disabilities: Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor ... subminimum wages must have been issued a certificate by the Wage and Hour Division.

Subminimum Wage for People with Disabilities - The ILR School

Businesses paying subminimum wages to people with disabilities must receive a 14c certificate that is approved by the Department of Labor (DOL).

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

Tens of thousands of disabled people in the United States are paid less than the federal minimum wage — with some workers making as little as 25 ...

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

According to the Department of Labor's website, subminimum wage provides for “individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by a ...

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

We found that about 120,000 workers were employed under these certificates, with half earning less than $3.50 an hour. DOL oversees the ...

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

In practice, a subminimum wage can only be paid to disabled employees hired by entities holding a 14(c) certificate approved by the DOL. Entities maintain an ...

Disabled Workers Can Be Paid Less Than $7.25 an Hour. It's Time ...

Disabled Workers Can Be Paid Less Than $7.25 an Hour. It's Time to Change That. ... The federal minimum wage – $7.25 an hour – isn't much. And, ...

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

While many disability advocates see moving away from subminimum wage as a basic issue of fairness, others worry that raising pay could affect ...

End Subminimum Wages for Disabled Workers!

Recent data found many disabled employees who worked under 14(c) certificates earned an average of $3.34 an hour, with many disabled workers earning far less.

Federal and State Subminimum Wage Legal and Policy Framework

The Final Rule implements Executive Order 14026 (April 27, 2021), which raises the minimum wage paid by those contractors to $15.00 beginning ...

Trends in Disability Employment Legislation

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

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

The Raise the Wage Act also helps people with disabilities. It ends subminimum wage over time. By 2024, all people with disabilities would be making at least ...

2.7 Sub-minimum wages for workers with disabilities

In the U.S., the law authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from the Wage and Hour Division, to pay wages less than the Federal minimum wage to ...

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 ...

State Legislative Watch - Association of People Supporting ... - APSE

Note: Prior to 2023, the following states passed legislation to eliminate subminimum wages for people with disabilities: Alaska, Maine, Maryland ...

Why U.S. disabled workers earn so little and how subminimum ...

The latest wage estimates, from the GAO's analysis of a subset of 14(c) facilities in 2019 to 2021, suggest that half of workers make less than ...

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 ...

Updates to “Pennies on the Dollar: The Use of Subminimum Wage ...

The subminimum wage, also known as section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, was established by Congress in 1938 as a rate of ...

Subminimum Wage Employment Of People With Disabilities ...

Amid a push to end a decades-old practice allowing workers with disabilities to be paid less than minimum wage, a new federal investigation ...