[nabs-l] The Subminimum Wage Issue

[justin williams]

Everyone has the right to make minimum wage; while I understand your
viewpoint of the employers possibly laying off those workers, noone, and I
mean noone  should be forced to work for subminimum wage.  It simply is not
fare, and it will be corrected. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael Forzano
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 10:01 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] The Subminimum Wage Issue

Hi All,

I've been hearing a lot about the subminimum wage issue that the NFB is
involved in, and the NFB's position honestly doesn't make sense to me.

My understanding is that the people being paid subminimum wages have
disabilities in addition to blindness that prevent them from doing the job
as productively as someone being paid minimum wage, such as cerebral palsy.
If subminimum wages are eliminated, it seems pretty clear to me that the
employers would lay off the people in question.
After all, if you suddenly have to pay an employee hundreds of times more
than you were paying them for the same amount of work/productivity, I don't
think you'd have much choice.

People being paid suvminimum wage are likely in that situation because they
have no other choice, that is, their disabilities prevent them from working
even a minimum wage job. If the NFB succeeds, these people will likely have
no job at all and be forced to spend their lives sitting at home on SSI. How
is that helping them? at least right now, they have a job, something to keep
them busy.

I'm curious to see how the NFB is arguing against this because it seems
pretty clear to me from a business perspective. As much as the employers may
want to continue to employ these people it just won't make sense.

Mike

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