Clinton's Case Against the Subminimum Wage

[KamaAina]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/clinton-subminimum-wage/475863/

A young lawyer with autism wanted Hillary Clinton’s opinion about the “subminimum wage,” a Depression-era exemption to labor law that allows disabled people to be hired—and often exploited—at rates far below the minimum wage....

Then she spoke against the subminimum wage—a topic rarely, if ever, addressed in the presidential campaign....

“We believe people with disabilities deserve the same labor law protections as people without disabilities,” said Ari Ne’eman, a co-founder of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and member of a Labor Department advisory board on the subminimum wage.

In 1938, President Roosevelt signed into law the Federal Labor Standard Act (FLSA), setting standards for basic minimum-wage rights and overtime pay for workers. It created an exemption that permits certain employers to pay wages to worker with disabilities that are far lower than the minimum wage—sometimes as low as 8 cents per hour.

I'm still for Bernie, but...

[Agschmid]

1. Good.