[NABS-L] Urgent Legislative Alert: Action Needed Regarding Sub-Minimum Wage Law for Disabled Americans

[Kaleigh Brendle]

NABS,

The Department of Labor has begun taking steps to phase out a section of a
law that allows disabled Americans to be paid sub-minimum wages, but
they’ve received thousands of comments defending the law. The Governmental
Affairs team needs all of us to leave comments on the page linked below
stating that this is wrong, and disabled Americans should be treated with
dignity and paid the same wages as any other worker. See the below message
from Justin Young for more information, and please share this, comments
must be sent in by 11:59 PM tonight

Link to Form for Comments:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/04/2024-27880/employment-of-workers-with-disabilities-under-section-14c-of-the-fair-labor-standards-act


Thank you,
Your Advocacy Committee

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Young, Justin via NFBNet-Members-List <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Time-Sensitive Legislative Alert - January
16, 2025
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>

Dear Federation Family,

 On December 4, 2024, the US Department of Labor released a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the phaseout of Section 14(c) of the
Fair Labor Standards Act. The National Federation of the Blind fully
supports this NPRM and submitted comments
<https://nfb.org/programs-services/advocacy/policy-statements/comments-regarding-department-labors-proposed-rule>
on Wednesday, January 15.

 The NPRM has received thousands of individual comments from those in favor
of keeping subminimum wages for people with disabilities. We apologize that
we did not anticipate such a substantial response from these individuals
who support subminimum wages. As a result, we have an urgent request for
our members to submit comments by the deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Friday,
January 17.

 All comments are helpful even if the comment is, "I believe people with
disabilities should be paid at least the minimum wage, and 14(c)
certificates should be phased out.” All public comments should be submitted
using the online form found at
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/04/2024-27880/employment-of-workers-with-disabilities-under-section-14c-of-the-fair-labor-standards-act#open-comment
.

 The page contains a place for you to type in your comment, and then you
will need to select that you are an individual, which will bring up fields
for you to type in your first and last name. You will then need to check a
box acknowledging you are aware any information you provide will be
publicly available on regulations.gov before clicking “submit.”

 Again, we apologize for the last-minute notice. Thank you for all your
hard advocacy on this matter.

 Justin T. Young, Ed.D

Government Affairs Specialist, National Federation of the Blind

200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/200+East+Wells+Street,+Baltimore,+MD+21230?entry=gmail&source=g>


410-659-9314, extension 2210 | jyoung at nfb.org





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