Supply: thinkprogress.org – Wednesday, February 12, 2014
CREDIT: Shutterstock The Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it is going to make bigger the scope of its imminent Executive Order elevating new federal contractors’ minimal wages to $10.10 per hour to incorporate workers with disabilities — an incredible shift that would appreciably enhance salaries for an estimated 50,000 American citizens with disabilities who can legally be paid less than the federal minimum wage below present law. Section 14(c) of the Honest Labor Standards Act of 1938 permits companies that hire staff with disabilities to pay them subminimum wages under a different wage certificate. Incapacity advocates have long pushed for a repeal of that provision, arguing that it reflects an old-fashioned and patrician view of what workers with disabilities are able to, how they are perceived, and the lodging now on hand to them. At first, the White Home seemed poised to leave Americans with disabilities out of its Govt Order — a transfer that used to be sharply criticized through the Nationwide Council on Incapacity (NCD), an independent federal company that advises the federal government on issues affecting Americans with disabilities, in a letter to President Obama and Labor Secretary Tom Perez. “Surely we are able to do higher than this,” read the letter . Now, it seems that NCD and different advocacy groups’ push has spurred the administration to reverse direction. “Beneath current law, staff whose productivity is affected on account of their disabilities may just b

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