URGENT: Stop Subminimum Wage by submitting a comment in support of the Department of Labor's notice of proposed rulemaking on ending 14c by this Friday
Comments are due by Friday, January 17 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Learn more here: endsubminimumwage.org
Comment here:
Federal Register :: Request Access
Hi, disabled US Americans and disability allies. Do you like being paid fairly for a job? Do you think everyone should be treated equitably at work regardless of your disability status? Do big companies like Goodwill who prey on disabled people kind of disturb you but you don't know what to do?
I have a time sensitive request. We have a chance to get the DOL to end submimimum wage, an archaic loophole in US labor law that lets companies pay wages below the federal minimum wage to employees with disabilities (most frequently people with intellectual and developmental disabilities but this can happen to anyone with a significant disability that impacts your ability to work without accommodations). We desperately need more comments in support of this.
Unfortunately there's a small but focused group of parents of people with disabilities who behave much like the small groups who get massive numbers of book bans approved each year. Right now it's like 2:1 comments against ending 14c vs comments in support of ending this horrible program.
I'm joining other disability advocates to ask people to write a comment to help combat this dynamic even if it's "I believe people with disabilities should be paid minimum wage and 14c certificates should be phased out". Please take 5 mins and write a comment.
So many people believe in the concepts around ending 14c but these parents are relentless in their efforts to continue these ableist policies that demean and humiliate workers with disabilities, not to mention continue to trap us in cycles of poverty and institutionalization.
Please write your thoughts on ending subminimum wage in a comment either through the endsubminimumwage.org site by Friday at 12pm ET or directly on the record through the federal register by Friday at 11:59pm ET.
Please reblog this post and share with your US American followers. Let's show up!!!
