Sadly once again, corporate profits are more important that the workers, even disabled ones

[DainBramaged]

Some disabled workers paid just pennies an hour – and it's legal


One of the nation's best-known charities is paying disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour, thanks to a 75-year-old legal loophole that critics say needs to be closed.

Goodwill Industries, a multibillion-dollar company whose executives make six-figure salaries, is among the nonprofit groups permitted to pay thousands of disabled workers far less than minimum wage because of a federal law known as Section 14 (c). Labor Department records show that some Goodwill workers in Pennsylvania earned wages as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour in 2011.

"If they really do pay the CEO of Goodwill three-quarters of a million dollars, they certainly can pay me more than they're paying," said Harold Leigland, who is legally blind and hangs clothes at a Goodwill in Great Falls, Montana for less than minimum wage.

"It's a question of civil rights," added his wife, Sheila, blind from birth, who quit her job at the same Goodwill store when her already low wage was cut further. "I feel like a second-class citizen. And I hate it."

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/20/19062348-some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour-and-its-legal?lite


Being partially blind it hits home.....

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Oh no

Guess all of our 'stuff' is going to the VVA now. Was trying to split between the two.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Doesn't have to be

Has to be on my Facebook page filled with do-gooders, good souls, and kind hearts.

[booley]

3. guess I won't be shopping there anymore

pity.

[otohara]

5. Shame On Them -

they probably justify by thinking these folks get govt. help and therefore ... fucking bullshit - I hope this goes viral. It's shocking how employers treat the disabled.

[DainBramaged]

7. And sadly, DU doesn't give a shit.....

at this point neither do I.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. No

There's another post today . . . So I'm kicking this.

[lonestarnot]

9. 22 cents a fucking hour! I will never give those motherfuckers so much as a fucking cracker!

I will find the time to email!