Paying Disabled People Less Than The Minimum Wage: The Next Frontier For Disability Activism - News Summed Up

Paying Disabled People Less Than The Minimum Wage: The Next Frontier For Disability Activism


Sara Hart Weir, Disability Campaigner and Activist. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-hart-weir-ms-020986a/In the disability community, we recently celebrated Disability Pride and the anniversary of the ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990). Today, there are approximately 321,1314 Americans with disabilities who, even while living in the community, still earn subminimum wages in segregated sheltered workshops. These were the arguments used to justify cutting UK government spending on workshops for disabled people a few years ago. April this year, my company released an open letter asking all major motion picture companies to hire a Disability Officer.


Source: Forbes July 30, 2021 15:56 UTC



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